From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is `make-process' doing this? Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 22:31:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87k2d8doig.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: <87lgxodsm8.fsf@fastmail.fm> <877f98864b.fsf@linux-m68k.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476649932 23991 195.159.176.226 (16 Oct 2016 20:32:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:32:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.17; emacs 25.1.2 Cc: Emacs developers To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 16 22:32:08 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bvs5w-0002eR-J6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 22:31:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvs5y-0000Wb-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:31:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55912) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvs5s-0000Va-Sn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvs5p-00054A-RE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:31:40 -0400 Original-Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:58129) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvs5p-00053Y-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:31:37 -0400 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F7C20507; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:31:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:31:37 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h=cc :content-type:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=DUrLB Svg74RV2FrNKBjn/i7TOXE=; b=JnQOnPsrreVc3b4cBtBSmFDEdUMA6/X7eLxRj YMLt3MAHBYCe3MWAJMq1/JhMkepiO1zuc6Qnn77xiKXgSJ/C62MoBHNZ7kS272A/ ONhTxscbWtowKgVwO8xiz4/XEKhMgikQaQ8+48iQIfsM2Md9BqapdGw0rbSC/06b +OO8Dg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=DUrLBSvg74RV2FrNKBjn/i7TOXE=; b=FECTv LaEDKpwR/nrBOVIUXmvK2RCETzMzalhi3RAdvhsIz6G4sOP7Eh0E7OMvBxg0HRq/ 2WY3KvHU/y2MExZgvFEbEKWiS7nbcm8EWpxlftyqkqbmrwoCr0EhxxAxkEEhafU4 7/XRyldwUhrzet9gTU3S5Jd3pOUymELZKGClVw= X-Sasl-enc: b7JsrhrzFIhYWfeN2bphNnmocj2scbBNrcROUEDv2Kka 1476649896 Original-Received: from IdeaPad.messagingengine.com (x4d0ae1f0.dyn.telefonica.de [77.10.225.240]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7F2F9CC0B6; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:31:36 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <877f98864b.fsf@linux-m68k.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 66.111.4.25 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208339 Archived-At: On Sun, Oct 16 2016, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Okt 16 2016, Joost Kremers wrote: > >> IELM> (start-process "some-process" nil "evince" >> "~/path/to/some.pdf") > > This passes the string "~/path/to/some.pdf" as the argument. > >> ~ $ evince ~/path/to/some.pdf > > Try this instead: > > $ evince '~/path/to/some.pdf' Thanks for the hint. I'll go find myself a cluebat. -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments