Wait for (tex-file) to execute before go on with an elisp script

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I wrote a script that reads the .aux and .log files after some replacements in the ·tex file (LaTeX). To achieve this i did:

(tex-file)
(read-string "Wait to tex-file to complete, then press ENTER:")

So I wait for tex-file to complete and then I press ENTER to make the script go on in reading the (re)genereted files.

I'd like to obtain the same result without the read-string command, with the script automatically waits for tex-file to compleate.

I read about sentinels but I'm not able to use them. I can't figure out how they works.

Here are a few examples using process sentinels -- one is for AUCTeX, and two are for without the AUCTeX library (one is for Windows, and one is for OSX): tex.stackexchange.com/a/156617/26911 The non-AUCTeX example was designed to use in conjunction with a latexmk.rc file. For some nested examples of process sentinels see: stackoverflow.com/questions/24548536/… — lawlist, Apr 21, 2017 at 23:15

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:38:56Z

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I resolved by using:

(call-process-shell-command  (concat "latex " (buffer-file-name)) nil nil)

that does almost the same and that doesn't use sentinels.

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answered Apr 21, 2017 at 23:28

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