הϵѻteric³ Features

Periodic Command³ feature

הϵѻMCEdit has support for a useful feature – setting up and running of a provided shell command, periodically in background.

You can bring the feature configuration window by a standard shortcut Shift-Alt-i or from Command menu. After running it a window will pop up:

Periodic Command window

It’s self explanatory, however here are a few remarks:

  • the interval is a second-based timeout after which the command will be run,

  • the “Change limit trigger” is the number of keyboard presses, ie. roughly the number of changes to the edited file, after which the periodic background command will be triggered,

  • the “Notify on run” checkbox enables showing up of a small message window after each periodic command has been run.

The feature is especially useful for running a ctags -e . … command which will regenerate TAGS file – הϵѻMCEdit will reload it and take care to load only a fully generated, finished file.

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