Your message dated Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:57:00 +0200
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and subject line feature request: --viewer=CMD option to texi2dvi
has caused the Debian Bug report #470380,
regarding feature request: --viewer=CMD option to texi2dvi
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: texinfo
Version: 4.11.dfsg.1-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Some DVI/PDF viewers (*cough* evince) are too stupid to redisplay the
document when the file changes, but will redisplay the document in the
same window if re-invoked with the same file name. It would be nice,
therefore, if texi2dvi had a mode in which it automatically ran a viewer
at the end of every recompilation of a given document.
The attached patch implements just such an option, spelt --viewer=CMD.
(It may need a certain amount of polish; for instance, --viewer= with
no argument does nothing useful and does not give an error. I'm not
comfortable enough with the coding style to do things like that.)
zw
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
texinfo recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- texi2dvi 2008-02-20 02:27:19.000000000 -0500
+++ texi2dvi 2008-03-10 16:10:06.000000000 -0400
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@
-t, --command=CMD insert CMD in copy of input file
or --texinfo=CMD multiple values accumulate
--translate-file=FILE use given charset translation file for TeX
+ --viewer=CMD invoke CMD on the rendered DVI or PDF file
+ after processing is complete
Build modes:
--build=MODE specify the treatment of auxiliary files [$build_mode]
@@ -172,6 +174,7 @@
verb=false # true for verbose mode
translate_file= # name of charset translation file
recode_from= # if not empty, recode from this encoding to @documentencoding
+viewer= # if not empty, run on rendered file after processing completes
orig_pwd=`pwd`
@@ -1416,6 +1419,7 @@
--tidy) build_mode=tidy;;
-v | --vers*) echo "$version"; exit 0;;
-V | --verb*) verb=true;;
+ --viewer ) shift; viewer="$1";;
--) # What remains are not options.
shift
while test x"$1" != x"$arg_sep"; do
@@ -1654,6 +1658,9 @@
# Compile the document.
compile
cleanup
+ if [ -n "$viewer" ]; then
+ ($viewer $out_name < /dev/null &) # background it and forget it
+ fi
;;
mostly-clean)
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
A clear negative and reasoned response was given to this request a long
time. I close this bug no longer relevant.
--
Stéphane Aulery
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