"ShellExecute failed" -- Emacs 24.4 on Win7

"ShellExecute failed" -- Emacs 24.4 on Win7

[AW]

Hi!

I asked this question on the orgmode list, but it seems to be an issue of 
Emacs 24.4. on Windows.

I installed Emacs 24.4 on Windows 7 from GNU.

Everything works, except some of my links in orgmode. They worked under Emacs 
24.3 and Win7, and they work with Emacs 24.4 under Linux.

The non-working links have a certain structure: I'm using shorcuts. I have a 
file "AW-org-file.el", containing lines like:

(setq org-link-abbrev-alist
'((name . "//SBS2011/path/to/folder/%s")))

This file "AW-org-file.el" is required in my .emacs

The links in the org-files look like this:

[[name:filename]]

or

[[name:./path/down/the/folder/filename.pdf]]

With cursor on the link I do "C-c C-o" and get:

"ShellExecute failed: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden."

(my translation: the system can not find the file).

Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou I did: 

 M-: (org-element-property :path (org-element-context))

with the point on a link and got an "expanded" path plus filename. OK, except 
that it contains slashes ( "/" ) instead of backslashes.

I'd be thankful for a helping hand,

Alexander

Re: "ShellExecute failed" -- Emacs 24.4 on Win7

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:25:39 -0500
> 
> I installed Emacs 24.4 on Windows 7 from GNU.
> 
> Everything works, except some of my links in orgmode. They worked under Emacs 
> 24.3 and Win7, and they work with Emacs 24.4 under Linux.
> 
> The non-working links have a certain structure: I'm using shorcuts. I have a 
> file "AW-org-file.el", containing lines like:
> 
> (setq org-link-abbrev-alist
> '((name . "//SBS2011/path/to/folder/%s")))
> 
> This file "AW-org-file.el" is required in my .emacs
> 
> The links in the org-files look like this:
> 
> [[name:filename]]
> 
> or
> 
> [[name:./path/down/the/folder/filename.pdf]]
> 
> With cursor on the link I do "C-c C-o" and get:
> 
> "ShellExecute failed: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden."
> 
> (my translation: the system can not find the file).
> 
> Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou I did: 
> 
>  M-: (org-element-property :path (org-element-context))
> 
> with the point on a link and got an "expanded" path plus filename. OK, except 
> that it contains slashes ( "/" ) instead of backslashes.
> 
> I'd be thankful for a helping hand,

Report this as a bug using "M-x report-emacs-bug RET".  In that
report, please provide a minimal Org file which can be used to
reproduce this problem, and also include the steps to reproduce the
problem starting from "emacs -Q".

Thanks.

Re: "ShellExecute failed" -- Emacs 24.4 on Win7

[AW]

Am Donnerstag, 20. November 2014, 19:22:32 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> > From: AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>
> > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:25:39 -0500
> > 
> > I installed Emacs 24.4 on Windows 7 from GNU.
> > 
> > Everything works, except some of my links in orgmode. They worked under
> > Emacs 24.3 and Win7, and they work with Emacs 24.4 under Linux.
> > 
> > The non-working links have a certain structure: I'm using shorcuts. I have
> > a file "AW-org-file.el", containing lines like:
> > 
> > (setq org-link-abbrev-alist
> > '((name . "//SBS2011/path/to/folder/%s")))
> > 
> > This file "AW-org-file.el" is required in my .emacs
> > 
> > The links in the org-files look like this:
> > 
> > [[name:filename]]
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > [[name:./path/down/the/folder/filename.pdf]]
> > 
> > With cursor on the link I do "C-c C-o" and get:
> > 
> > "ShellExecute failed: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden."
> > 
> > (my translation: the system can not find the file).
> > 
> > Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou I did:
> >  M-: (org-element-property :path (org-element-context))
> > 
> > with the point on a link and got an "expanded" path plus filename. OK,
> > except that it contains slashes ( "/" ) instead of backslashes.
> > 
> > I'd be thankful for a helping hand,
> 
> Report this as a bug using "M-x report-emacs-bug RET".  In that
> report, please provide a minimal Org file which can be used to
> reproduce this problem, and also include the steps to reproduce the
> problem starting from "emacs -Q".
> 
> Thanks.

I've posted a bug report some days ago here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2014-11/msg01046.html

Without any success, I've got not answer so far. Is the bug report itself  
incomplete?

I've no idea who is so brave to maintain Emacs for Windows, but maybe a reader 
of this list could pass it to the maintainer(s). 

Thank you!

Alexander

Re: "ShellExecute failed" -- Emacs 24.4 on Win7

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:05:46 +0100
> 
> I've posted a bug report some days ago here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2014-11/msg01046.html

I've seen it, thanks.

> Without any success, I've got not answer so far. Is the bug report itself  
> incomplete?

It is complete.  You just need to have a bit more patience: I'm not
being paid to do this stuff, and my free time is limited.

> I've no idea who is so brave to maintain Emacs for Windows, but maybe a reader 
> of this list could pass it to the maintainer(s). 

No need, the maintainer reads this list.  Stay tuned, solution is at
hand.

Re: "ShellExecute failed" -- Emacs 24.4 on Win7

[AW]

Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014, 18:41:54 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> > From: AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:05:46 +0100
> > 
> > I've posted a bug report some days ago here:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2014-11/msg01046.html
> 
> I've seen it, thanks.
> 
> > Without any success, I've got not answer so far. Is the bug report itself
> > incomplete?
> 
> It is complete.  You just need to have a bit more patience: I'm not
> being paid to do this stuff, and my free time is limited.
> 
> > I've no idea who is so brave to maintain Emacs for Windows, but maybe a
> > reader of this list could pass it to the maintainer(s).
> 
> No need, the maintainer reads this list.  Stay tuned, solution is at
> hand.

Thank you very much. I managed to compile Emacs 24 on Windows today and the 
links work, as expected.