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Re:Using Unix as an IDE (2012) by haolez on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @09:02PM (#17361234)
Highly recommend the inotify tools. It makes things like auto reloading very easy to setup.
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Re:Using Unix as an IDE (2012) by DarkCrusader2 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:29AM (#17362898)
Though it looks like unmaintained, I use watchdog[1] for automatically running build and test commands on file change.

[1] https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog

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Re:Using Unix as an IDE (2012) by lloeki on Thursday June 21, 2018 @06:53AM (#17363809)
Maybe look into the very unix-y fswatch, which is cross platform too.

https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch

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