binding emacs key combination to external program?

binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Roger Levy]

Hi,

I use a shell script to compile my LaTeX files from the command line
and turn them into PDFs in one go-around (using ps2pdf rather than
pdflatex), and I would like to bind an Emacs key combination to the
execution of this script on the buffer.  How can I do this?  I'm
having a hard time figuring it out from the manual.

Many thanks,

Roger

Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Joost Kremers]

Roger Levy wrote:
> I use a shell script to compile my LaTeX files from the command line
> and turn them into PDFs in one go-around (using ps2pdf rather than
> pdflatex), and I would like to bind an Emacs key combination to the
> execution of this script on the buffer.  How can I do this?  I'm
> having a hard time figuring it out from the manual.

you need to define a lisp function that calls your shell script on the
current buffer, and then bind your desired key combo to this function.

but more likely you should consider using AUCTeX (google for it). AUCTeX
can be customised to call your script. plus it has a gazillion other
benefits when writing latex documents.

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Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Roger Levy]

On Sep 10, 1:59 pm, Joost Kremers <joostkrem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Roger Levy wrote:
> > I use a shell script to compile my LaTeX files from the command line
> > and turn them into PDFs in one go-around (using ps2pdf rather than
> > pdflatex), and I would like to bind an Emacs key combination to the
> > execution of this script on the buffer.  How can I do this?  I'm
> > having a hard time figuring it out from the manual.
>
> you need to define a lisp function that calls your shell script on the
> current buffer, and then bind your desired key combo to this function.
>
> but more likely you should consider using AUCTeX (google for it). AUCTeX
> can be customised to call your script. plus it has a gazillion other
> benefits when writing latex documents.

Many thanks -- I do use AUCTeX but wasn't aware you can customize it
this way.  Would the best way to be to edit the TeX-command-list
variable?

Roger

Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 11.09.2007 um 12:42 schrieb Roger Levy:

> I do use AUCTeX but wasn't aware you can customize it
> this way.  Would the best way to be to edit the TeX-command-list
> variable?

Yes. Afterwards you're able to select this command. You know that can  
you add the local variable

	%%% TeX-command-default: "script"

in the file's footer?

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Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Joost Kremers]

Roger Levy wrote:
> Many thanks -- I do use AUCTeX but wasn't aware you can customize it
> this way.  Would the best way to be to edit the TeX-command-list
> variable?

yes, either directly or through M-x customize-variable RET TeX-command-list
RET.

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Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Roger Levy]

On Sep 11, 10:05 am, Joost Kremers <joostkrem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Roger Levy wrote:
> > Many thanks -- I do use AUCTeX but wasn't aware you can customize it
> > this way.  Would the best way to be to edit the TeX-command-list
> > variable?
>
> yes, either directly or through M-x customize-variable RET TeX-command-list
> RET.

Thanks again.  My script is called latex2pdf and takes one argument,
the name of the .tex file.
I've tried to add it by using

  M-x customize-variable RET TeX-command-list RET

and adding the following at the top of TeX-command-list:

Name: latex2pdf
Command: latex2pdf %S &
Modes: Plain TeX, LaTeX

However, after saving this modification and setting it for the current
session, C-c C-c in LaTeX mode still doesn't trigger the latex2pdf
command.  Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong?

Many thanks once more.

Roger

Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Joost Kremers]

Roger Levy wrote:
> Name: latex2pdf
> Command: latex2pdf %S &
> Modes: Plain TeX, LaTeX
>
> However, after saving this modification and setting it for the current
> session, C-c C-c in LaTeX mode still doesn't trigger the latex2pdf
> command.  Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong?

well, you press C-c C-c and then you still have to select the command you
want to run. so press l and then hit TAB, it will expand to latex2pdf. then
hit ENTER.

however, i don't think your command is right. first, the %S is for the
source special options. you probably want %t, which expands to the tex
file.

i also don't think you need the ampersand. instead, you need to set the
How: options, probably to TeX-run-command. that also gives you the ability
to watch the output of your command by typing C-c C-l.


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Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Roger Levy]

On Sep 19, 10:06 am, Joost Kremers <joostkrem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Roger Levy wrote:
> > Name: latex2pdf
> > Command: latex2pdf %S &
> > Modes: Plain TeX, LaTeX
>
> > However, after saving this modification and setting it for the current
> > session, C-c C-c in LaTeX mode still doesn't trigger the latex2pdf
> > command.  Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong?
>
> well, you press C-c C-c and then you still have to select the command you
> want to run. so press l and then hit TAB, it will expand to latex2pdf. then
> hit ENTER.
>
> however, i don't think your command is right. first, the %S is for the
> source special options. you probably want %t, which expands to the tex
> file.
>
> i also don't think you need the ampersand. instead, you need to set the
> How: options, probably to TeX-run-command. that also gives you the ability
> to watch the output of your command by typing C-c C-l.

Thank you, that helped!

Best

Roger

Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Roger Levy]

On Sep 11, 8:23 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 11.09.2007 um 12:42 schrieb Roger Levy:
>
> > I do use AUCTeX but wasn't aware you can customize it
> > this way.  Would the best way to be to edit the TeX-command-list
> > variable?
>
> Yes. Afterwards you're able to select this command. You know that can
> you add the local variable
>
>         %%% TeX-command-default: "script"
>
> in the file's footer?

I didn't know this.  Thanks!

Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Johan Lindström]

At 21:20 2007-09-10, Roger Levy wrote:
>and I would like to bind an Emacs key combination to the
>execution of this script on the buffer.

Maybe something like this?

(defun run-latex-or-whatever ()
   "Convert the buffer to PDF"
   (interactive)
   (shell-command-to-string (format "ps2pdf %s &" (buffer-file-name)))
   (message "The buffer was converted to PDF, ain't that great?")
   )

(global-set-key (kbd "\C-c L") 'run-latex-or-whatever)


I'm a rookie though, so I look forward to be educated about more 
idiomatic/succinct/solid ways of doing this.


/J

Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Matthias]

Roger Levy schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I use a shell script to compile my LaTeX files from the command line
> and turn them into PDFs in one go-around (using ps2pdf rather than
> pdflatex), and I would like to bind an Emacs key combination to the
> execution of this script on the buffer.  How can I do this?  I'm
> having a hard time figuring it out from the manual.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Roger
> 

Most easy would be to put a Makefile in your working directory that 
defines how your shell script is called and then use emacs' compile 
command that you bind to any key for example "f9":

(global-set-key [f9] 'compile)

matthias