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> or just write a hook in your text editor Ah, the Dropbox comment springs to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item

• gopiandcode 5y ago
  ..except it's quite different though? Adding a hook for compilation in most decent editors is only a few lines of config, and many popular editors (GNU Emacs, vim, m$ vscode) nowadays have packages that have these hooks predefined, so it pretty much just comes down to installing a package, which I hope you don't think is beyond the capabilities of the average user. Alternatively there are editors like texworks which provide exactly this feature out of the box.
  • dash2 5y ago
    Sure, and inotifywatch is probably trivial too - to those who know.