Re: binding emacs key combination to external program?

[Johan Lindström]

At 21:20 2007-09-10, Roger Levy wrote:
> and I would like to bind an Emacs key combination to the
> execution of this script on the buffer.

Maybe something like this?

(defun run-latex-or-whatever ()
  "Convert the buffer to PDF"
  (interactive)
  (shell-command-to-string (format "ps2pdf %s &" (buffer-file-name)))
  (message "The buffer was converted to PDF, ain't that great?")
  )

(global-set-key (kbd "\C-c L") 'run-latex-or-whatever)


I'm a rookie though, so I look forward to be educated about more 
idiomatic/succinct/solid ways of doing this.


/J