From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: find a file and put it in a window
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:26:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3405-Mon26Jul2004202559+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kK0Nc.15293$%p4.5381@okepread04> (message from Jasen on Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:34:40 -0700)
> From: Jasen <xx@yy.zz>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:34:40 -0700
>
> Ok, I'm almost there but Emacs gets me an empty new file rather than the
> existing file? Could this be the problem of space in the directory
> path because I'm using Windows XP and there are spaces in the path?
> c:/Documents and Settings/austin/Local Settings/Temp
I don't think it should matter in this case, but it's easy to check:
just run the same code on a directory where the result of the shell
command gives you a file name without embedded whitespace, and see if
that succeeds.
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2004-07-26 2:28 find a file and put it in a window Jasen
2004-07-26 4:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2004-07-26 5:34 ` Jasen
2004-07-26 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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