Automatic build and reload for Sphinx documentation

I'm beginning to use Sphinx to create a document and I got sick of compiling and reloading every time I wanted to see what was going on. So I learned how to get it to automatically compile to html and then reload Firefox. The solution is below.

	#pip install watchdog
	#sudo apt-get install xvkbd
	#!/bin/bash
	watchmedo shell-command \
	--patterns="*.rst" \
	--ignore-pattern='_build/*' \
	--recursive \
	--command='make html && xvkbd -window Firefox -text "\Cr"'

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It's a combination of two useful tidbits.

One introduces Watchdog:
http://jacobian.org/writing/auto-building-sphinx/

The other introduces xvkbd:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/15589391/456878