Re: Please document the caching and its user options

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Can we instead store them in memory? Yes, but (1) it will make Emacs RAM
>> consumption grow constantly and more and more previews are generated;
>> (2) it will require significant changes in the Org mode codebase.
>
> I understand all that, but if the user wants it, and insist on not
> caching any data, let them have what they want.

It is not about letting or not letting them. I would have to implement
it. (I am ok with it, but I am not going to prioritize my time for
nice-to-haves; though I would not mind patches submitted by interested
users).

> ... My surprise was
> caused by your "it is impossible"; I now understand that you meant
> "not reasonable" or perhaps "users will not like that" instead.

I meant:

1. not reasonable in a sense that it has downsides compared to what we
   do now - save latex previews on disk
2. impossible in a sense that we do not have an existing toggle to store
   cached previews in memory. Such functionality would have to be added;
   and it is not necessarily trivial to add it.

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