Re: [AUCTeX] Feature request: Auto-compiling every ten seconds

[Rasmus]

AW <address@hidden> writes:

> Quite often I'm just writing text, left hand emacs, right hand the pdf-viewer 
> showing my page. 
>
> To compile I'm typing C-C C-S C-C C-C (1. save 2. compile). What about an 
> auto-compilation-modus, which saves and compiles every ten or 15 seconds? 
> "M-x 
> autocompile 15" => every 15 seconds.  
>
> Nowadays most Computers are so fast, it would not disturb whatever running in 
> the background. Maybe the module to do that could even stop if the last run 
> terminated with an error. 
>
> Just an idea. 

You might be more happy with something like latexmk (Perl) or rubber
(Python). At least the former will auto-compile every time a change is
detected, and quite fast! A similar project called latex-daemon exists
for Win. 

For example
,----
| latexmk main.tex --pvc
`----

you could also use the --pdf flag, or add something like the following
to your ~/.latexmk file 

,----
| $pdflatex = 'pdflatex --interaction nonstopmode --synctex=-1 %O %S';
`----

Whether AUCTeX easily handles a deamon, I simply don't know.

–Rasmus

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