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

You can also put \nonstopmode or \batchmode at the very beginning of your tex file; then it'll work with any TeX version, not just pdflatex. For more info on these and related commands see the very good reference on (raw) TeX commands by David Bausum. Especially the command from the debugging family could be of interest here.