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From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: running a command that requires two parameters on a file
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:11:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhr1mwch.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fvh98xi3.fsf@bach.histomat.net

Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:

> I am in the habit of bringing up ! in order to run a command such as
> xpdf on a selected file.
>
> The problem comes when I want to run the command wkhtmltopdf, for it
> calls for two parameters. That is, emacs won't let me do: ! wkhtmltopdf
> input.html output.pdf.

You are a filthy liar!

Type: 

        M-! wkhtmltopdf input.html output.pdf RET


> Is there a way I can do this withou raising a terminal to make the
> conversion with it?

There are several ways, I shown just one above.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                 http://www.informatimago.com/
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-06 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-06 15:10 running a command that requires two parameters on a file Haines Brown
2014-08-06 15:20 ` Barry Margolin
2014-08-06 16:11 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2014-08-09 12:16   ` Haines Brown
2014-08-12  5:59 ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] ` <mailman.7002.1407823212.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-12 14:42   ` Barry Margolin

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