On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 09:20:06PM +0100, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:56:13PM -0500, Greg Reagle wrote: > > I find it a real pain to work with things like man page source and markdown > > source and so forth because of the extra steps of making the output/object > > format. > > You can use something like [0], or use gv, which automatically reload the file > when it is modified (watch option). > > [0] http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/tips/2009/07/17/0-realtime-troff/
gv is good for pdf's, but not for the more general issue of working on source files and dealing with object files (e.g. markdown and HTML). I am afraid that [0] is beyond my current comprehension. I don't know enough about Plan 9 and/or I might need to stare at it hard for a while before I can grok it.