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I have a program, say myprogram.exe, and I want to run it from within Emacs by using a key binding. I can run the program in the shell, but don't know how to write a function that calls this function and can be assigned a key binding.

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I give here only the basic ingredients as a starter kit.

Define an interactive command that calls myprogram.exe:

(defun myprog ()
 (interactive)
 (call-process "myprogram.exe"))

Now bind that command to the key of your liking:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c p") #'myprog)
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  • Thanks Tobias,works like a dream (I had written a script that sends a line from emacs to matlab and returns, so I can use matlab-mode and matlab on my windows machine)
    – arnyeinstein
    Jun 7, 2018 at 14:29
  • @arnyeinstein The standard way to indicate that the answer solves the problem is to accept it. (Click the green check mark.)
    – Tobias
    Jun 7, 2018 at 14:31

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