From 0974ea361a66df39886d4bd18ae1b721e40701aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guilherme Rugai Freire <dev@grfreire.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:10:09 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] latex_hotreload: new

---
 bin/latex_hotreload                |  1 +
 latex_hotreload/README.md          |  7 ++++
 latex_hotreload/latex_hotreload.sh | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
 create mode 120000 bin/latex_hotreload
 create mode 100644 latex_hotreload/README.md
 create mode 100755 latex_hotreload/latex_hotreload.sh

diff --git a/bin/latex_hotreload b/bin/latex_hotreload
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..836f42f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/latex_hotreload
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../latex_hotreload/latex_hotreload.sh
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/latex_hotreload/README.md b/latex_hotreload/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a76f9d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/latex_hotreload/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# latex_hotreload
+
+## About
+-- about section here --
+
+## Requirements
+-- any requirements --
diff --git a/latex_hotreload/latex_hotreload.sh b/latex_hotreload/latex_hotreload.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f30d5fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/latex_hotreload/latex_hotreload.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+entry="$1"
+files_to_watch=$()
+
+if [ -z "$entry" ]; then
+	echo "Error: no entry provided. See --help for usage"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ "$entry" == "--help" ]; then
+	echo "Usage: latex_hotreload [OPTIONS] entry_tex_file"
+	echo ""
+	echo "	OPTIONS:"
+	echo "		--help:	show this help"
+	echo ""
+	echo "	STDIN:"
+	echo "		The stdin should contain the files that should be watched for recompilation"
+	echo "			Defaults to ./*.tex"
+	echo ""
+	echo "	ARGUMENTS:"
+	echo "		entry_tex_file:	the entry latex file for compilation"
+	echo ""
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+output="$(echo "$entry" | sed 's/\.tex$/.pdf/')"
+
+if test ! -t 0; then
+	while IFS= read -r line
+	do
+		files_to_watch+=("$line")
+	done
+	
+	files=$(printf "%s" "${files_to_watch[*]}")
+	files="$(echo $files | sed 's/ /\n/')"
+else
+	files="$(find . -type f | grep "\.tex")"
+fi
+
+echo $files | sed 's/ /\n/g' | entr -s "pdflatex -shell-escape $entry" &
+entr_pid=$!
+
+while [ ! -f "$output" ]
+do
+  sleep 0.5
+done
+
+zathura "$output"
+
+kill -s 2 "$entr_pid"