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Reputation: 1

shell-command output in a frame instead of splitting the active window

For convenience I am using shell-command in Emacs for latex/dvips and other commands. While the default behavior of the shell-command output is to split the currently active window, I would rather have it display the output-buffer in a new frame. Is there a way to achieve this?

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Answers (1)

Basile Starynkevitch
Basile Starynkevitch

Reputation: 1

For a small LaTeX document, you could consider its latexing as a "compilation" command, from the Emacs point of view.

I suggest ending your foo.tex document with a comment like

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% Local Variables: ;;
%% compile-command: "lualatex --halt-on-error --file-line-error foo"
%% End: ;;

Adapt that to your needs. Read about local variables in files.

My ~/.emacs is partly shown here. Then I am latexing that document with F12 which is bound to recompile, which on my system shows the "compilation" (i.e. the LaTeX-ing) in another frame.

PS. Beware of the terminology: emacs frames are not window manager frames.

Upvotes: 1

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