From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Haines Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: running a command that requires two parameters on a file Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:10:28 -0400 Message-ID: <87fvh98xi3.fsf@bach.histomat.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407338138 26334 80.91.229.3 (6 Aug 2014 15:15:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:15:38 +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 Aug 06 17:15:30 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 1XF2vw-000144-Uw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:15:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39579 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XF2vw-0002JQ-HY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:15:20 -0400 X-Received: by 10.236.44.205 with SMTP id n53mr5745986yhb.12.1407337829197; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 08:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!v10no4849178qac.1!news-out.google.com!b3ni18581qac.1!nntp.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:10:28 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kmbofaXGfz5VWhUqG3Wx8b1ZKD8= Original-Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-qbz4JILfWcB42zu1mDw9ovXvoa8V1l/DHvh+Tkj2CEB8dJhJZ1rkzAF5r/m7bwXPjwMAPCjWbnCoj8f!wK/T06kYH5ZoMmIBRKU+hlFZ54/PDGn9bYpPzUlqCZnUWuFLBBClHjlfX+M= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1369 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206823 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:99099 Archived-At: 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? Haines Brown