(fwd) Bug#470380: feature request: --viewer=CMD option to texi2dvi

[Hilmar Preusse]

Dear TeX Info people,

down here in the Debian bug Tracking system we got a request to
implement a "view" option to automatically start a viewer as soon as
a texi2dvi run was successful. A patch to implmenet this is contained
in the request.
Please consider to include the patch.

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Bug#470380: feature request: --viewer=CMD option to texi2dvi Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:11:36 -0400

Package: texinfo
Version: 4.11.dfsg.1-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Some DVI/PDF viewers (*cough* evince) are too stupid to redisplay the
document when the file changes, but will redisplay the document in the
same window if re-invoked with the same file name.  It would be nice,
therefore, if texi2dvi had a mode in which it automatically ran a viewer
at the end of every recompilation of a given document.

The attached patch implements just such an option, spelt --viewer=CMD.
(It may need a certain amount of polish; for instance, --viewer= with
no argument does nothing useful and does not give an error.  I'm not
comfortable enough with the coding style to do things like that.)

zw

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-9      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

texinfo recommends no packages.

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