adding support for latexmk -pvc (continuous preview)? about auctex-latexmk

[tom-tan]

Hi!

This request and #11 were closed without merging because it is much simpler to use after-save-hook and TeX-run-latexmk.
For more details, please see #11.

[tom-tan]

Could you send me a pull request instead of pasting the modified version?
It makes easier for me to check the difference, to verify the change, and to merge it.

[nealeyoung]

On Jun 27, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Tomoya Tanjo [email protected] wrote:

Could you send me a pull request instead of pasting the modified version?
It makes easier for me to check the difference, to verify the change, and to merge it

Okay, I tried to do a pull request. Not sure if I did it right. To be clear, I don’t think
the change I made should be merged as it is. It sort of works, but surely not in the
way it should. There are probably three things that need improvement:

1. supporting invocation of latexmk with the -pvc flag should probably be done
   via auctex as an option, or as a separate command from latexmk without -pvc.
   I didn’t do either. I just hard-coded the flag into the code. :-(

2. I wrote a wrapper around the process filter that has to call the original process
   filter. to do that, at some point the original process filter function name is cached
   in a global variable. using a global variable for that is probably not the best way.

3. since latexmk behavior and output changes when the -pvc flag is used, the
   existing sentinel function didn’t quite work right. I tried to patch it, but I didn’t
   know quite what that function was trying to do, so I doubt I got it right.

thanks, I appreciate your work on this,

-Neal

[tom-tan]

Thank you for sending #11.
I will check it later.

[tom-tan]

I close this issue.

[sattath]

Hi,

I'm also interested in using latexmk --pvc. Is this implemented now? If so, how can I use it? Thanks for your efforts!