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In article <1992Apr3.101249.2856@arizona.edu>, krueger@galileo.uucp (Ted Krueger) writes:
|> In article <1992Mar31.171514.2567@csi.uottawa.ca> dominic@shamin.genie.uottawa.ca writes:
|> >
|> >
|> >I have found that xdvi is easier to use, in my particular environment.  I
|> >usually have xdvi, an xterm running vi, and a small xterm for executing the
|> >latex commands from, all up on the screen at once.  Hence I have found the
|> >the automatic updating and the keybindings coinside very nicely with the vi
|> >editor.  
|> 
|> >dominic
|> >
|> How do you do that?
|> 
|> My version of xdvi does not allow this option, so I am forced to close 
|> and re-open the xdvi viewer every time I re-compile the TeX file.  This 
|> is quite frustrating.
|> 
|> Ted

I've been running xdvi for more than 2 years now, and it's always had the update
feature! What's really great about this is that you don't need the xterm window
open to run TeX, LaTeX or whatever: just map some sequence (I use F1) to save the
file and run TeX. Then, to view your just-typed changes, all you need to do is
hit the F1 key, and move your mouse into the xdvi window. xdvi sees that the dvi file
has been updated, and voila! You see the new output. The whole sequence takes a
few seconds on an RS/6000.

rab
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