Tired of switching to the shell to test the changes you just made to your code? Starting to feel like a mindless drone, manually running pdflatex for the 30th time to see how your resume now looks?
Worry not, when-changed is here to help! Whenever it sees that you have changed the file, when-changed runs any command you specify.
So to generate your latex resume automatically, you can do this:
$ when-changed CV.tex pdflatex CV.tex
Sweetness!
- Python 2.6+
- watchdog
pip install https://github.com/joh/when-changed/archive/master.zip
when-changed [OPTION] FILE COMMAND... when-changed [OPTION] FILE [FILE ...] -c COMMAND
FILE can be a directory. Use %f to pass the filename to the command.
Options:
- -r Watch recursively
- -v Verbose output. Multiple -v options increase the verbosity. The maximum is 3: -vvv.
- -1 Don't re-run command if files changed while command was running
- -s Run command immediately at start
- -q Run command quietly
when-changed provides the following environment variables:
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WHEN_CHANGED_EVENT: reflects the current event type that occurs. Could be either:
- file_created
- file_modified
- file_moved
- file_deleted
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WHEN_CHANGED_FILE: provides the full path of the file that has generated the event.