Custom keybinding for shell command in emacs

Question

Hello all,
I am a very frequent LaTeX user, and I often have BibTeX references and pstricks images, so I end up compiling my document several times for every document. To speed up this process, I wrote a short, simple shell script (below)
#!/bin/sh
file="$1"
latex \\nonstopmode\\input $file.tex
bibtex $file
latex \\nonstopmode\\input $file.tex
latex \\nonstopmode\\input $file.tex
dvips $file.dvi
ps2pdf $file.ps
This has been much nicer, since instead of typing all of those things, I simply type "mytex file."
Being the greedy person that I am, I would now like to compile it from emacs without typing the shell command, kind of like C-c C-f when I am just compiling as usual. I don't have very much experience with custom keybindings in emacs anyway, but I certaintly do not know how to call a particular shell command including the current file name.
Any tips?
Last edited by keither (2010-02-15 15:18:42)

Answer 1

First of all, you will probably save some compilation time by using an "inteligent" script such as latexmk. You should look into it if you have not done so already.
Second of all, AUCTeX will also suggest the "correct" next step when using C-c C-c. Also, you should consider just adding latexmk or your own script to the C-c C-c cycle. Here are some examples from my .emacs
(eval-after-load "tex"
'(progn
(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
(list "View in Acrobat Reader" "acroread %o"
'TeX-run-command nil t))
(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
(list "Count Words" "texcount -inc %s.tex"
'TeX-run-command nil t))
(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
'("Synctex" "/home/rasmus/.scripts/synctex-emacs %t %b %n" TeX-run-TeX nil t) t)
If you want to use a script as the one suggested by yourself you would want to look into the last exampe ("Synctex").
--Rasmus