On 04/16/2018 09:10 PM, Joel Kulesza wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 7:06 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck > <rikih...@lyx.org <mailto:rikih...@lyx.org>> wrote: > > On 04/16/2018 08:56 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:45:39AM +0000, Joel Kulesza wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck > <rikih...@lyx.org <mailto:rikih...@lyx.org>> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> One polishing thing I've considered is to allow this to be done by > >>> clicking on the spinning wheel thing that pops up during > compilation (or > >>> maybe double clicking), and possibly to bind this to some key. Any > >>> thoughts? > >>> > >> Regarding polishing, and spoken in ignorance because I haven't > yet tested, > >> one issue I'm often caught by is beginning a compile, spotting > an error, > >> and correcting it before the compile finishes. Does a check > for document > >> consistency during the render make sense? For example, a > dialog to ask if > >> the compilation should be restarted if changes are detected? > Perhaps this > >> is best set to be user-configurable so that the dialog doesn't > become a > >> nuisance with current behavior kept as the default? > > So suppose I'm compiling, and then I start typing. If this > feature is > > enabled, a dialog would pop up when I press a key? Perhaps > instead, we > > could add a menu entry next to "Cancel Background Process" along the > > lines of "Restart Compilation", that is also only visible when > > compiling? Or we could list it as an example in the LFUN doc. e.g. > > "consider making a keyboard shortcut for <<command-sequence > > export-cancel; buffer-export>> to restart compilation". > > I often compile to check something, and keep typing on purpose. > Indeed, > part of the point > of background compilation is to allow that sort of thing. So I'd be > inclined not to do this > kind of thing. It's easy enough to cancel manually in that case and > re-start---though we could > make canceling easier (which was the original question). > > > Sorry I didn't clarify, as I noted in my reply to Scott, I'd imagine > the query would be triggered by saving the document with the changes > during the ongoing compile.
I do that, too, since I save very often. Riki
