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Re:A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs by OrderlyTiamat on Monday May 30, 2022 @06:33PM (#31564344)
I've had that fixed in the past by simply adding an ampersand to org's compile command. This does make it run in the background but makes it ring the bell a number of times. Now when I'm editing and want to see the compiled pdf side by side I just start a bash while loop that recompiles continually with latexmk.
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Re:A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs by anotherevan on Monday May 30, 2022 @09:54PM (#31565420)
> I just start a bash while loop that recompiles continually with latexmk.

There's the -pvc option in latexmk that[1], "continuously check all input files for changes and re-compile the whole thing if needed and always display the result," depending on if your PDF viewer will refresh.

That may obviate the need for a bash while loop.

[1] https://mg.readthedocs.io/latexmk.html

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Re:A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs by OrderlyTiamat on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:48PM (#31622553)
Neat, thanks!
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Re:A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs by NeutralForest on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @04:24AM (#31567222)
That makes sense, I don't need to recompile that often but when recompiling relatively large notes (~50 pages) with lots of minted code blocks and the like, it's annoying.
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