docview in emacs: refreshing dvi content automatically

Question

Is there a way Emacs can automatically refresh the buffer showing the dvi right after my LaTeX compilation? Thank you.

Kentiga

Answer 1

Use interactive function:

auto-revert-mode

to enable reloading when the file changes.

Actor

Or put (global-auto-revert-mode t) in .emacs in case you want this behavior for all files(I most certainly do) – Od

Answer 2

The global auto revert is not always desirable, in fact I only use it for for the DocView to see the new output of pdflatex.

The following will allow auto revert for the DocView major mode

(add-hook 'doc-view-mode-hook 'auto-revert-mode)

Ejectment

+1, this automation is exactly what I wanted and makes sense for read-only doc-view mode buffers, but would be potentially dangerous for other buffers. – Gunter