On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 12:53:56AM -0500, Greg Reagle wrote: > If you use the -r option of entr, then you do get complete and very > satisfying automation when running a GUI. For instance this works great: > echo Readme.md | entr -r sh -c 'mkd2html Readme.md ; netsurf Readme.html' > > For some reason entr -r doesn't work with w3m or elinks or lynx (maybe this > is a bug in entr that needs to be fixed). However, you can use service > supervision for the win!
If you are running X (or similar), actually I figured out that you don't need service supervision at all. You can get full automation with this: echo Readme.md | entr -r sh -c 'mkd2html Readme.md ; st -e w3m Readme.html' If entr -r mode is ever made to work with curses programs, then you can use w3m with entr just like I use netsurf in above code. Until then, you have option of opening a new terminal emulator like above, or using service supervision like in my previous message.
