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I'm using TeXLive 2014 on MacOS X 10.6 and I'm currently working with Aquamacs 2.5.

I'm currently using two different shell scripts for compiling my LaTeX document (thesis), which are located in ~/bin/script1.sh and ~/bin/script2.sh

  • At the moment I always switch to the terminal application for compiling and launch one of those commands there.
  • I'd like to define a custom keybinding in Emacs which lets me run those scripts directly without leaving Emacs.

How can I do that?

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I assume you call your compile scripts like this:

~/bin/script1.bash master.tex

and that you only has to call it once. In this case here's a defun which does it:

(defun tex-custom-compile (arg) (interactive "P") "Calls `~/bin/script1.sh' on file associated with current buffer. With C-u calls `~/bin/script2.sh' instead" (let (script texFile) (cond ((equal arg '(4)) (setq script "~/bin/script2.sh ") ) (t (setq script "~/bin/script1.sh ") ) ) (async-shell-command (concat script (buffer-file-name) ) ) ) )

This defun should be easy to tweak to adjust it to your particular need. When you are satisfied with this defun bind it to a key:

(define-key TeX-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-t C-p") 'tex-custom-compile)
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    Could you edit your code to follow elisp coding conventions regarding close parentheses? Commented Jan 8, 2015 at 20:39
  • @Dan: I'd read the article you linked. For myself I use this style, because it allows me to comment a single line or a block: if I were to put multple closing parenthesis on the same line -- commenting won't work the simple way. Commented Jan 8, 2015 at 20:47
  • thanks for your help! No, I just call the script like I wrote (without any additional arguments yet, as it only compiles my thesis - THE ONE document ;-) ). And yes, I just call it once. One of the scripts just starts one pdflatex run and does some postprocessing/ document statistics, the other one starts latexmk (with several runs) and then the postprocessing/ document statistics. Commented Jan 8, 2015 at 21:20
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    @Martin: just comment (buffer-file-name) line and you done. Commented Jan 8, 2015 at 23:16

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