Re: Calling external programs in emacs

[Jens Lechtenboerger]

On 2017-01-13, at 17:34, Dan Espen wrote:

> Sam Nirvana <samnirvana@linux.org> writes:
>
>> As you know, with Vim I can compile, say, a TeX file from within the 
>> editor with the following command:
>>
>>      :!pdftex %
>>
>> Is there a way to do the same thing with emacs?

In addition to the various suggestions for shell commands so far:
If you are looking for an integrated (La)TeX environment, you may
like AUCTeX: https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/

Best wishes
Jens