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>>>>> On 31 Jul 92 02:15:45 GMT, epstein@sparc9.cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein) said:

> Currently, I use (Ed Reingold's) tex-mode in emacs, so while I'm
> editing, I have xdvi running, and periodically run latex on the file
> from within emacs (xdvi automatically looks at the new .dvi file).

> I was thinking of writing some emacs code that automatically runs
> latex on the file every so often (perhaps when it auto-saves).  The
> above situation seemed like it would cause problems, though (e.g. if
> when it runs latex, I am in the middle of entering a block, so I might
> not have the appropriate \end or whatever, and latex -- and probably
> xdvi -- will barf).

It should (he said) be relatively easy to write something that runs
TeX on the file and doesn't kick the previewer (I think xdvi listens
to some signal doesn't it?) until the TeX job finishes, and also
checks whether it's got an error and stop TeX in that case.  At least
AUC-TeX has error parsing anyway I think so it could live on top of
that quite easily.  Actually what you probably *really* want to do is
just point TeX at some region around point, which should also be easy
in AUC-TeX...

Perhaps it might be necessary to modify xdvi so it optionally doesn't
listen to anything *but* some signal or some explicit key to prevent
it trying to read the 1/2-finished dvi file.

--tim