Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Matthias]

Roger Levy schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I use a shell script to compile my LaTeX files from the command line
> and turn them into PDFs in one go-around (using ps2pdf rather than
> pdflatex), and I would like to bind an Emacs key combination to the
> execution of this script on the buffer.  How can I do this?  I'm
> having a hard time figuring it out from the manual.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Roger

Most easy would be to put a Makefile in your working directory that 
defines how your shell script is called and then use emacs' compile 
command that you bind to any key for example "f9":

(global-set-key [f9] 'compile)

matthias