# Re-running Documenter.makedocs interactively

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/re-running-documenter-makedocs-interactively/9964
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [March 25, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/re-running-documenter-makedocs-interactively/9964 "2018-03-25T13:53:46Z")
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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/re-running-documenter-makedocs-interactively/9964/1 "2018-03-25T13:53:46Z")

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While its documentation suggests the `julia make.jl` workflow, I am wondering if it would be possible to just call the generator function interactively as I keep working on documentation (writing Markdown directly, but also working on docstrings).

The purpose of this would be avoiding the startup & compilation time.

I tried doing this, but even with `Revise.jl` the docstrings themselves are not updated.

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### Author: ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/re-running-documenter-makedocs-interactively/9964/2 "2018-03-26T06:35:56Z")

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Just repeatedly doing `include("docs/make.jl")` works perfectly fine on julia master. On julia v0.6 I ran into [https://github.com/JuliaDocs/Documenter.jl/issues/689](https://github.com/JuliaDocs/Documenter.jl/issues/689) though.