Re: Is there a TeXworks 'refresh' command?

Hi,

I did forward your questions to the TeXworks' list.
Here is the answer from S. Löffler, who is the one 
maintaining the system now.

Regards,

Alain

Hi,

On 2013-01-30 08:40, Alain Delmotte wrote:
 > I'd like to have answer.

Don't we all .

 > I edit in gvim (old habits ...) but have TeXworks open (2 
 > windows, usually: source and PDF output).  When each
 > session starts, TeXworks realizes that the .tex file has
 > changed when I write to the source file from gvim, but at
 > some point in every session, it stops paying attention.
 > Then, it seems to me, I have to close TeXworks and start
 > it anew.  I've looked for a 'refresh' button/menu choice,
 > but I haven't found one.  Is there a 'refresh from file'
 > action?

There's no "refresh from file" action. Tw should do this 
automatically.
If it doesn't, I'd consider this a bug (though if it's in Tw 
itself or in the underlying Qt framework I don't know). The 
problem then is: how to reproduce it (quickly and consistently)?

 > Would it be hard to write a 'refresh' script?

If you mean a script that, when executed, reloads the file 
content: no, that should be easy enough. Scripts have the 
ability to read files, the TeX filename should be available 
too, so this should be straight forward to write a script 
that replaces the current text with the content of the
file on the disk.

 > Is there a version of TeXworks available for download
 > that has Python available for scripting; my copy has
 > QtScript and Lua, but I hadn't planned on learning
 > another scripting language just now . . .

No, unfortunately not anymore. There once was, but some 
people told us that they way we included Python was unsafe 
and prone to breaking some important Python functionality 
(at least on Windows, IIRC). Since we didn't find anyone so 
far who could "make things right", Python support was 
removed from the official builds for the time being. 
Besides, up until now, scripting (almost) exclusively 
concentrated on QtScript (which is pretty similar to 
JavaScript), so there was no real demand for Python so far.

HTH
Stefan

Le 30/01/2013 03:37, Eben Oldmixon a écrit :
> Dear Group,
>
> I edit in gvim (old habits ...) but have TeXworks open (2 windows,
> usually: source and PDF output).  When each session starts, TeXworks
> realizes that the .tex file has changed when I write to the source
> file from gvim, but at some point in every session, it stops paying
> attention.  Then, it seems to me, I have to close TeXworks and start
> it anew.  I've looked for a 'refresh' button/menu choice, but I
> haven't found one.  Is there a 'refresh from file' action?
>
> Would it be hard to write a 'refresh' script?
>
> Is there a version of TeXworks available for download that has Python
> available for scripting; my copy has QtScript and Lua, but I hadn't
> planned on learning another scripting language just now . . .
>
> Thanks, everyone.  MikTeX/TeXworks is becoming essential software, IMHO.
>
>
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