From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple tex shell command Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3093a6c0-f4f8-464c-b507-b9a0da8d78a3@a32g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <2a238cd9-e48e-44a5-8237-ff0e3f17138d@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213144849 2808 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2008 00:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 11 02:41:31 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K6EP4-00019x-Ml for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:41:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40039 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K6EOH-0005mE-9m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:40:41 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a32g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.226.234.243 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213142444 18814 127.0.0.1 (11 Jun 2008 00:00:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a32g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.226.234.243; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159345 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54700 Archived-At: To run a shell command in elisp, you need, e.g. (shell-command command &optional output-buffer error-buffer) or (setq sh-output (shell-command-to-string (concat cmd-name " " img-file- path))) for a full code example, see the xGetDimention in Elisp Lesson: Writing image-linkify Function http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_image_tag.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84 On Jun 10, 5:40 am, "benjamin.friedrich" wrote: > Dear all, > > I am a lisp newbie; > I want to define a short-cut in my .emacs which automatically runs > latex on my thesis, > i.e. something like this > > (defun tex-thesis () "latex my thesis" "latex \\nonstopmode\input -src > E:/thesis/thesis.tex") > (global-set-key [f4] 'tex-thesis) > > How should this read as correct lisp code? > > Thanks, > Ben > > P.S. > I tried > (setq tex-main-file "E:/ben/thesis/thesis.tex") > but then c-c c-f 'latex-file will always latex the thesis, even if I > happen > to work on a tex-file that does not belong to the thesis.