On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Floris van Manen wrote:

> it might be simpler to have a ‘watch’ option for the context compiler 
> combined with an ‘open result’. e.g. the coffeescript compiler allows 
> for a ‘-w’ option, it will keep the compiler running in the background 
> and start compiling the file(s) as soon as it detects any changes.
>
> i guess such feature might already exist in the rich mtx context tools environment.
> not sure where to look though …

I use atchange perl script for such tasks:

https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov/atchange.html

Aditya