From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jasen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: find a file and put it in a window Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:28:38 -0700 Organization: Cox Communications Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090809150 4698 80.91.224.253 (26 Jul 2004 02:32:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:32:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 04:32:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BovHp-0007rx-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 04:32:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BovKq-0006y4-0X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:35:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!info1.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!newsprint.newsread.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!cox.net!news-xfer.cox.net!p01!okepread04.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.5.246.42 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net Original-X-Trace: okepread04 1090808946 68.5.246.42 (Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:29:06 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:29:06 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124449 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19785 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19785 Hi all, Would someone please advise me how can I resolve this problem: I would like to find a file in a directory through a shell command: ;; Get the newest version of file (setq file (string (shell command "ls -tc C:\\dir1\\dir2\\dir3/file*.txt | head -1"))) ;; Put the file is a windows (find-file-other-window file) The problem is that either Emacs or Windows can't interpret the full file name along with directory path correctly and I don't know how to fix it? Thanks, Austin