From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>
To: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 24.5 and external-abook
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 19:32:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867frcvlbv.fsf@members.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m28ubtq3jq.fsf@tsdye.com
tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
> A mystery to me is the return from (shell-command-to-string), which is
> called by (external-abook-search). I'm expecting the result of
> (shell-command-to-string) to reflect output I get on the command line,
> not "error: no one found".
Reasonable expectation, indeed.
Could you try
(shell-command-to-string "contacts -lSf '%we\\\"%n\\\"' 'Krickette'")
and (in emacs)
M-! contacts -lSf '%we\"%n\"' 'Krickette'
then, in a shell :
contacts -lSf '%we\"%n\"' 'Krickette'
(perhaps try the above both in a M-x shell and outside emacs).
And see what they return ?
Nico.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-09 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-22 23:16 Emacs 24.5 and external-abook Thomas S. Dye
2015-05-26 15:00 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-08 21:43 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-06-09 17:32 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2015-06-09 19:44 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-06-09 19:48 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-09 20:05 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-06-10 5:20 ` Nicolas Richard
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