Don't make me manually abort a LaTeX compile when there's an error

Question

As suggested here, latexmk is a handy way to continually compile your document whenever the source changes. But often when you\'re working on a document you\'ll en

Answer 1

With MikTeX, pdflatex has this command-line option:

  -interaction=MODE               Set the interaction mode; MODE must be one
                                  of: batchmode, nonstopmode, scrollmode,
                                  errorstopmode.

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Edit suggested by @9999years:

Those values are equivalent to a set of LaTeX \commands that provide the same functionality.

From TeX usage tips:

The modes make TeX behave in the following way:

• errorstopmode stops on all errors, whether they are about errors in the source code or non-existent files.

• scrollmode doesn't stop on errors in the source but requests input when a more serious error like like a missing file occurs.

• In the somewhat misnamed nonstopmode, TeX does not request input after serious errors but stops altogether.

• batchmode prevents all output in addition to that (intended for use in automated scripts). In all cases, all errors are written to the log file (yourtexfile.log).