From: Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com>
To: Josh <jnfo-d@grauman.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Macro that calls external program
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 07:46:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnqxsvir.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1903101524020.23107@colo.shuman.org> (Josh's message of "Sun, 10 Mar 2019 15:37:52 -0700 (PDT)")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-11 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-10 22:37 Macro that calls external program Josh
2019-03-11 7:46 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2019-03-11 11:19 ` Josh
2019-03-11 19:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-03-11 20:48 ` John Kitchin
2019-03-11 19:24 ` Ken Mankoff
2019-03-11 13:28 ` Josh
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