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Re: Calling external programs in emacs
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Rusi |
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Re: Calling external programs in emacs |
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Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:40:12 -0800 (PST) |
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On Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 12:23:46 AM UTC+5:30, Sam Nirvana wrote:
> I'm new to emacs, so forgive my inexperience.
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> As you know, with Vim I can compile, say, a TeX file from within the
> editor with the following command:
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> :!pdftex %
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> Is there a way to do the same thing with emacs?
Others have already told you about M-! (also to be found on Menu→Tools→Shell
Command)
The % trick however does not work OTB in emacs
Here is some elisp that can help that
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2008-08/msg00482.html