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From: ppalmer@oskar.uchicago.edu (Patrick Palmer)
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Subject: Re: xdvi in emacs
Summary: can xdvi stay alive in the background?
Keywords: xdvi, emacs
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Date: 21 May 91 04:54:16 GMT
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In article <ADRIANHO.91May20162413@barkley.berkeley.edu> adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu (Adrian J Ho) writes:
>In article <BOB.91May20162839@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>>I prefer to have <whatever>-print-command actually put the document on
>>paper, and use compile-command for the previewer.
>
>Why not have _both_?  All you have to do is edit tex-mode.el, copy the
>code for (TeX-print) to, say, (TeX-preview), change all references to
> ....
>Isn't Emacs _great_?  8-)

If you run xdvi from the TeX shell, can you run it in the background
so that you can let it stay active as you revise the file?  I don't
see how myself.  If not, isn't it easier to run xdvi from another
window so that you immediately see the revised .dvi file without
having to start xdvi again?  (That is one of the nice things about
xdvi - it knows when the dvi file changes and redisplays it
automatically.)  But, I don't understand the TeX shell, and am always
searching for enlightenment about it.

Pat Palmer (email: ppalmer@oskar.uchicago.edu)