Colin Baxter <m43...@yandex.com> writes: > > 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. > > I too was one of those complainers who wanted to be able to disable > org-persist completely. The argument about latex preview is really a > non-starter in my opinion. I never use latex-preview and I'm sure I'm > not alone in this. I also would not class the disabling of org-persist > to be a 'nice-to-have'.
Let me clarify. If you do not use latex-preview or other features that cache their results, org-persist should not create any files or directories. (It currently does create gc-lock.eld, but I will fix this) However, if you do use it, Org mode has no option to disable creating cache. In fact, Org mode never had such an option. For example, `org-preview-latex-image-directory' is a part of Org mode since at least Org 9.0, and it was never an option to disable it. org-persist did not introduce anything drastically new in this regard. So, this discussion and people insisting on completely disabling the cache is a bit strange to me. I suspect that the problem may be not the cache itself, but either (1) that it is created when cache features are not really used; (2) that it is created in .emacs.d for some users. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
