Re: How automatically/immediately run command in ansi-term *with* *arguments* ?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.19677.1423592437.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Subhan Michael Tindall <SubhanT@familycareinc.org> wrote:

> Kind of a long shot, & I'm not set up to test it,
> But maybe you could put program arg1 arg2... in back-ticks? `program arg1 
> arg2` to force the grouping into a single 'program'?

Backticks are processed by the shell. If it were using the shell, you 
would be able to do just "program arg1 arg2".

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+subhant=familycareinc.org@gnu.org
> > [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+subhant=familycareinc.org@gnu.org] On
> > Behalf Of Barry Margolin
> > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 7:51 AM
> > To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: How automatically/immediately run command in ansi-term
> > *with* *arguments* ?
> > 
> > In article <18d0a858-7d2b-42de-bc61-8e16ff376569@googlegroups.com>,
> >  Chris Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm trying to set some shortcuts for shell commands.  I want to use
> > > ansi-term as it has colors and other niceties not found in shell if I
> > > use shell-command....
> > >
> > > This works...
> > >
> > > (ansi-term 'some_command_here')
> > >
> > > This does *NOT*...
> > >
> > > (ansi-term 'some_command_here arg1 arg2')
> > >
> > > How get arguments to work?  This would be quite a nice replacement for
> > > shell-command if it could for people that like/need ansi-term.
> > 
> > The argument to ansi-term is a program, not a command. There doesn't
> > seem to be a way to provide arguments to the program. Write a script that
> > does what you want, and put that as the program argument.
> > 
> > --
> > Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
> > Arlington, MA
> > *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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