Auto-refresh open PDF previews when the file changes
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- Rust
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Description
What variant of Codex are you using?
App
What feature would you like to see?
I edit LaTeX with Codex and have it recompile after each turn. The open PDF preview requires clicking Refresh after each compilation, interrupting the edit–compile–review cycle.
Please consider automatically reloading PDFs when they change on disk, either by default or through an "Auto-reload" option in the viewer. Preserve the current page, scroll position, and zoom, and tolerate temporary incomplete files during compilation.
Additional information
Related: #26292, which concerned stale PDF previews on Windows.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Locate the App's PDF preview/viewer and its existing Refresh action, then trace how the preview loads the file. Verify automatic reload behavior with a LaTeX compilation, including preservation of page, scroll position, and zoom and tolerance of temporarily incomplete PDFs.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- latex, rust
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100