Re: launching a perl script

[Mart Zirnask]

Sorry for spamming,
I actually provided the file name as "c:/tags#.pl" but this gave the
same effect -- Emacs freezes.

Thanks for help,
Best,
MZ

2011/9/21 Mart Zirnask <martzirnask@gmail.com>:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Probably an issue not very complicated: when I try to launch an
> external Perl script ("tags#.pl") from Emacs, providing it with the
> current buffer name, the editor freezes.
>
> I'm on Windows and here's what I have in my .emacs:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;; Perl tagcloud
> (global-set-key (kbd "<f2>")
>                      (lambda ()
>                        (interactive)
>                        (shell-command (concat "perl
> ~/.emacs.d/tags#.pl " buffer-file-name))))
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I'm not a programmer and I started using Emacs for text editing only
> recently. What's wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> best,
> Mart Zirnask,
> from Estonia
>