Re: automate command after saving

[phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)]

You could do this using after-save-hook. So, something like

(add-hook 'after-save-hook
          'pandoc-hook)

(defun pandoc-hook()
  (compile "pandoc -t latex...."))

Personally, I do this outside Emacs, though, with this little bash
script.

#!/bin/bash
make $*
while inotifywait -r -e MODIFY --exclude ".#*" --exclude ".*~" .
do
    make $*;
done;

Cheap, cheerful but effective.

Phil

Martin Kaffanke <martin@kaffanke.at> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> I'd like to run a command after saving, but just if I switch it on.
>
> Following scenario:
>
> When I write on  an org file, before printing I look at the pdf version
> created by
>
> pandoc -t latex -o filename-without-org-but-with.pdf filename.org
>
> And then I switch to emacs to do corrections.
>
> Now I'd like to automatically run pandoc again when I switch back to
> evince (which automaticaly loads the pdf new when changed on disk).
>
> How could a make a switch for emacs to automatically run pandoc again
> after C-x C-s?
>
> Thanks for your Ideas,
> Martin

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