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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: find a file and put it in a window
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:26:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3405-Mon26Jul2004202559+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kK0Nc.15293$%p4.5381@okepread04> (message from Jasen on Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:34:40 -0700)

> From: Jasen <xx@yy.zz>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:34:40 -0700
> 
> Ok, I'm almost there but Emacs gets me an empty new file rather than the 
>   existing file?  Could this be the problem of space in the directory 
> path because I'm using Windows XP and there are spaces in the path? 
> c:/Documents and Settings/austin/Local Settings/Temp

I don't think it should matter in this case, but it's easy to check:
just run the same code on a directory where the result of the shell
command gives you a file name without embedded whitespace, and see if
that succeeds.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-26 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-26  2:28 find a file and put it in a window Jasen
2004-07-26  4:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1472.1090814571.1960.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-07-26  5:34   ` Jasen
2004-07-26 18:26     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-26  2:28 Jasen

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