From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: start-process somehow expands *.org
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:19:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjv7tlai.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTimj-hkKPGWR-4K9LTtw6skN+Z9uDtrb2bDt5PU1@mail.gmail.com
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Lennart Borgman wrote (on Tue, 1 Mar 2011 at 03:07 +0100):
>>
>>> I am calling start-process with one of the program-args beeing
>>> "*.org". Somehow this is expanded to just the first of matching file.
>>>
>>> What is happening? Is this the way it is supposed to work?
>>
>> Will you PLEASE learn to give complete examples, rather than always
>> this "I saw a thing; is it a problem?" kind of mail.
>
> Sorry, I thought I was clear enough. start-process has a "&rest" arg
> called "program-args".
>
>> Maybe the following is relevant, how should I know what you doing.
>>
>> Functions that Create Subprocesses
>>
>> All three of the subprocess-creating functions have a `&rest'
>> argument, ARGS. The ARGS must all be strings, and they are supplied
>> to PROGRAM as separate command line arguments. Wildcard characters
>> and other shell constructs have no special meanings in these
>> strings, since the strings are passed directly to the specified
>> program.
>
> Yes, it might be relevant. However I do not understand what is happening.
>
> I have something like this
>
> (setq command
> ("ruby.exe" "c:\\path-to\\idxsearch.rb" "--root"
> "c:/where-to-search/" "--filepatt" "*.org" "--query" "word1,word2")
>
> (apply 'start-process (downcase mode-name) outbuf command)
>
> It looks like idxsearch.rb recieves the first file matching *.org, in
> my case "act.org" - instead of "*.org" as I expected.
>
> It might be ruby.exe that expands *.org, but if I try a similar
> command line ruby.exe does not expand *.org.
>
> This is on w32, as usual with my patched version.
Maybe use --filepatt as last arg and file-expand-wildcards on *.org.
(setq command "a b c d e --filepatt")
(apply 'start-process (downcase mode-name) outbuf command
(file-expand-wildcards "*.org"))
Or even better use start-process-shell-command.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-01 6:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 2:07 start-process somehow expands *.org Lennart Borgman
2011-03-01 2:27 ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-01 2:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-01 6:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2011-03-01 10:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-01 10:46 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-03-01 11:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-01 13:04 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-03-01 13:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-01 18:12 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-03-01 20:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-01 15:14 ` Davis Herring
2011-03-01 15:20 ` Lennart Borgman
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