From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 07:40:52 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] It is time to modernise "groff"
In-Reply-To: <DD806FB4-A62F-49DA-9253-2225D09046D7@quintile.net>
References: <201709051137.v85BbGTU005695@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
 <DD806FB4-A62F-49DA-9253-2225D09046D7@quintile.net>
Message-ID: <20170905144052.GN14353@mcvoy.com>

So for those who want WYSIWYG this little script helps.  I call it "g"
and you run it like so

	g groff -ms -t my_tables.ms

in a terminal (or use &) and it will pop up gv on the processed file[s].
It sits in a loop and stats all the files and if any have changed it
reruns the roff and tells gv.
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Larry McVoy            	     lm at mcvoy.com             http://www.mcvoy.com/lm 
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#!/usr/bin/perl

# Run the command into PS
# Run gv with the -watch option
# go into a loop watching the file and rerun command whenever the file
# has changed.

use POSIX ":sys_wait_h";

$usage = "usage: $0 comand -args -args file [file ...]\n";

foreach $file (@ARGV) {
	next unless -f $file;
	push(@files, $file);
}
die $usage unless $#files > -1;
$cmd = "@ARGV > PS.$ENV{USER}";
$gv = "gv -spartan -antialias PS.$ENV{USER}";
$gv = "gv --spartan --antialias --media=letter PS.$ENV{USER}";

system "$cmd";
$pid = fork;
if ($pid == 0) {
	exec $gv;
	die $gv;
}
# Read all the files looking for .so's so we catch the implied list.
# I dunno if groff catches nested .so's but we don't.
foreach $file (@files) {
	$stat{$file} = (stat($file))[9];
	open(F, $file);
	while (<F>) {
		next unless /^\.so\s+(.*)\s*$/;
		$stat{$1} = (stat($1))[9];
	}
	close(F);
}
while (1) {
	select(undef, undef, undef, .2);
	$kid = waitpid($pid,&WNOHANG);
	exit 0 if (kill(0, $pid) != 1);
	$doit = 0;
	foreach $f (keys %stat) {
		if ($stat{$f} != (stat($f))[9]) {
			$stat{$f} = (stat($f))[9];
			$doit = 1;
		}
	}
	if ($doit) {
		system $cmd;
		kill(1, $pid);
	}
}