From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: running a command that requires two parameters on a file
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:20:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-913769.11203706082014@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fvh98xi3.fsf@bach.histomat.net
In article <87fvh98xi3.fsf@bach.histomat.net>,
Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> wrote:
> I am in the habit of bringing up ! in order to run a command such as
> xpdf on a selected file.
I assume you're talking about Dired.
>
> 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.
>
> Is there a way I can do this withou raising a terminal to make the
> conversion with it?
>
> Haines Brown
Write a script that takes one argument and fills in the other argument.
Then run: ! scriptname
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-06 15:20 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 [this message]
2014-08-06 16:11 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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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