From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: running a command that requires two parameters on a file Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:11:42 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87lhr1mwch.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87fvh98xi3.fsf@bach.histomat.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407341772 10304 80.91.229.3 (6 Aug 2014 16:16:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:16:12 +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 18:16:07 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 1XF3sk-0000Z7-WE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:16:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39938 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XF3sk-0006ia-BI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:16:06 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net G9HnC9n/ivtP54rQ4ZvytwYyUvVb+H6229YvJwFgrlQniTe0p6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YWNlOTEzZDA4ZDI0MjE5ZWZjOTFjN2M0Nzk5NTU4NjEyZGI3OGM2NQ== sha1:5aFPYczyVW4nDQl/FYAV41mYeIc= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206825 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:99101 Archived-At: Haines Brown 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/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk