From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem quoting expression to be eval'ed by emacsclient
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:14:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5267A19C.2080700@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86y55kcrpc.fsf@somewhere.org>
Am 23.10.2013 10:33, schrieb Sebastien Vauban:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to evaluate an expression via `emacsclient' (from a Zsh shell),
> for example:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ emacsclient -e "(message \"hello\")"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But all I get is:
>
> *ERROR*: End of file during parsing
>
> Using `bash -x', I see that's due to a quoting problem:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ bash -x emacsclient -e "(message \"hello\")"
> + 'C:/Program Files (x86)/emacs-trunk/bin/emacsclient' -e '(message' '"hello")'
>
> *ERROR*: End of file during parsing
>
> $ bash -x emacsclient -e '(message \"hello\")'
> + 'C:/Program Files (x86)/emacs-trunk/bin/emacsclient' -e '(message' '\"hello\")'
>
> *ERROR*: End of file during parsing
>
> $ bash -x emacsclient -e \"(message \"hello\")\"
> zsh: no matches found: "(message "hello")"
>
> $ bash -x emacsclient "-e \"(message \"hello\")\""
> + 'C:/Program Files (x86)/emacs-trunk/bin/emacsclient' -e '"(message' '"hello")"'
>
> *ERROR*: End of file during parsing
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But I don't see how to pass the right expression to `emacsclient'. Is there
> anybody able to help me sort this out? TIA!
>
> Best regards,
> Seb
>
Maybe something with batch-mode?
That works here, however not emacsclient:
emacs -Q --batch --eval "(message \"%s\" \"hello\")"
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-23 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-23 8:33 Problem quoting expression to be eval'ed by emacsclient Sebastien Vauban
2013-10-23 8:52 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-23 14:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-10-23 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4544.1382542407.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-23 21:56 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-10-24 2:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4580.1382583151.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-25 12:37 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-10-25 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4697.1382708854.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-30 9:59 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-10-30 11:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-30 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4965.1383133220.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-07 15:37 ` Sebastien Vauban
[not found] ` <mailman.4986.1383159329.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-07 15:44 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-10-23 10:14 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
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