Re: cannot have two processes for latex document

[Oleg Katsitadze]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:45:25PM +0200, Alain Muls wrote:
> I edit/compile latex documents in Emacs. I would like to add a command to 
> view the pdf output using kpdf. I can run the command kpdf file.pdf, but 
> when I change something in the editor and want to recompile, I have to 
> close kpdf. I would like to change this so that kpdf can remain open.

I don't know about kpdf, but you can do this (and more) with xpdf.
Start xpdf like this:

  $ xpdf -remote key file.pdf

Then compile your file like this:

  $ pdflatex file.tex && xpdf -remote key -raise -reload

You don't even need to press M-TAB (or whatever you use to switch
windows)!

HTH,
Oleg