6 Nov
2007
6 Nov
'07
2:03 a.m.
As long as we are discussing this program, I've been thinking for some time now that I could speed up day to day use of this command drastically by pickling the dictionaries created when I manually crawl the latex hierarchy. Given that most people don't update their tex installation all that frequently I think this would be a real win. The question becomes when to go back and recrawl?
- After some number of days?
- Provide a command to rebuild the index manually?
- Look for some other marker in the tex heirarchy that indicates
that LaTeX has been updated... Is there a file or a kpse sort of command that would give me an installation last updated date?
I think that a command to rebuild the index manually is a good idea that need not compete with, say, rebuilding after a fixed time period. Just my two cents.