From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "source" shell commands
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:35:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85wt16btg5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bqii936r.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu> writes:
>
>> Is there an elisp function to "source" a shell file; i.e. an
>> alternative to:
>>
>> (shell-command (concat "source \"" (expand-file-name "~/.rc") "\""))
>
> Sure.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun mf-source (file)
> (interactive "f")
> (shell-command (concat "source \"" file "\"")))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Quoting is always good for trouble. I'd rather use
(defun mf-source (file)
(interactive "f")
(call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil "source" file))
assuming that you don't care about the output.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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2007-03-24 13:33 ` "source" shell commands Tassilo Horn
2007-03-24 14:35 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-03-24 15:24 ` Barry Margolin
2007-03-24 21:21 ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-03-25 0:08 ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-03-25 10:33 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-03-25 10:55 ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-03-25 11:53 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-03-26 0:44 ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-03-26 8:16 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-03-26 9:59 ` Matthew Flaschen
[not found] ` <mailman.1412.1174823876.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-03-25 22:36 ` Tim X
2007-03-26 0:53 ` Matthew Flaschen
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2007-03-26 11:30 ` Tim X
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2007-03-25 2:46 ` Tim X
2007-03-25 4:03 ` Matthew Flaschen
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2007-03-25 10:56 ` Tim X
2007-03-26 8:13 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-03-26 8:57 ` Matthew Flaschen
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2007-03-26 9:08 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-03-26 9:55 ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-03-25 2:32 ` Tim X
2007-03-25 2:59 ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-03-24 10:44 Matthew Flaschen
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