From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using `call-process-shell-command' in `process-lines' Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:31:03 +0100 Message-ID: <474B2D07.6050805@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196109088 25911 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2007 20:31:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:31:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 26 21:31:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iwkc7-0002FA-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:31:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iwkbs-0005pV-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:31:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iwkbp-0005pQ-SW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:31:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iwkbl-0005od-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:31:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iwkbl-0005oa-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:31:09 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iwkbi-0001Vl-6s; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:31:06 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:62957 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Iwkbg-00060t-44; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:31:04 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071125-0, 2007-11-25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Iwkbg-00060t-44. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1Iwkbg-00060t-44 110e709d1b55d29b5fa70f80c6772838 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84171 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:01:23 +0100 >> From: "Juanma Barranquero" >> Cc: Emacs Devel >> >> If I manually execute >> >> (apply #'call-process "c:/bin/gnuwin32/bin/find.exe" nil >> (get-buffer-create "output") nil '("c:/emacs/trunk/lisp/" "-name" >> "*.el")) >> >> I get: >> >> c:\bin\gnuwin32\bin\find.exe: paths must precede expression >> Usage: c:\bin\gnuwin32\bin\find.exe [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] > > If this minor variant works: > > (apply #'call-process "c:/bin/gnuwin32/bin/find.exe" nil > (get-buffer-create "output") nil '("c:/emacs/trunk/lisp/" "-name" > (shell-quote-argument "*.el"))) > > it might give you a clue to the solution. The call to > shell-quote-argument should be limited to Windows only, since the > Windows implementation of the library function called by call-process > constructs a single command line out of all arguments, which of course > means you need an extra pair of quotes. Maybe you mean something like (apply #'call-process "find.exe" nil (get-buffer-create "output") nil (list "c:/emacs-lisp/old/" "-name" (shell-quote-argument "*.el" ))) but it does not work AFAICS. There might be some clues in the message I sent before.