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For writing, it's great not to have the distraction.

But for publishing (especially book/e-book publishing, which always requires a lot of fiddling to get perfect!), it's really, really useful. My current workflow is TeXStudio with a lot of F5ing, which works pretty well...but that final run-through would be so much faster if I could see changes as they're made.

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I'm a bit confused by this and the posts above. In vscode it is possible to configure it such that on every save a new pdf is generated. You can open the PDF to the right and it's essentially instant preview.

I've used this config when writing papers, etc, and it works flawlessly.

As for diffs (what has changed), it is also possible to color code the changes too.

I can't recall how I configured viscose, but it was a fairly standard approach.

It may be that some of us didn’t know there was an extension that did this in vscode! ;) I definitely wasn’t aware of it until your comment.

Are you using LaTeX-Workshop?

I use vscode and that is my experience. Instant preview is cool, but at least for me it isn't even something I think about.

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