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From: Josh <jnfo-d@grauman.com>
Subject: Re: Macro that calls external program
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 04:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
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Thanks! This is very helpful.

I have a related question. How can I run an external program right before 
Export that takes as input the current buffer and prints out to stdout an 
updated version of the org file that then is exported? Basically I want to 
pipe the org file through a filter that is an external program before it 
is exported.

Thanks in advance!

Josh

> On Sunday, 10 Mar 2019 at 15:37, Josh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to emacs and orgmode. I spent the last couple days reading most
>> of the docs before diving in, but I didn't see anywhere how I could have a
>> macro that instead of replacing the macro with lisp code, calls an
>> external program instead.
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> #+MACRO: func   call /home/josh/mybinary $1
>
> You could maybe do something along the lines of
>
> #+macro: func (eval (shell-command (concat "/home/josh/mybinary " "$1")))
>
> (untested).
>
> -- 
> Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.2-249-g51444a
>