From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: running a command that requires two parameters on a file Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 23:59:36 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87fvh98xi3.fsf@bach.histomat.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407823229 2793 80.91.229.3 (12 Aug 2014 06:00:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 06:00:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 12 08:00:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XH588-0001ei-4E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:00:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39381 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XH587-0007YC-RN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50041) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XH57r-0007Sb-PK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XH57k-00076f-AC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37203) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XH57k-00076O-46 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:59:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XH57h-0001TI-R6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:59:53 +0200 Original-Received: from 97-122-173-50.hlrn.qwest.net ([97.122.173.50]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:59:53 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by 97-122-173-50.hlrn.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:59:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 97-122-173-50.hlrn.qwest.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: <87fvh98xi3.fsf@bach.histomat.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99172 Archived-At: On 8/6/14 9:10 AM, Haines Brown wrote: > 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. > > Is there a way I can do this withou raising a terminal to make the > conversion with it? Mark both files with `m', then `! wkhtmltopdf *' -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA