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Subject: Re: Problem quoting expression to be eval'ed by emacsclient
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> From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:52:19 +0200
> 
> > I'm trying to evaluate an expression via `emacsclient' (from a Zsh shell),
> > for example:
> >
> > $ emacsclient -e "(message \"hello\")"
> 
> This works for me (bash):
> 
> #+begin_src sh
> $  emacsclient -s my-server -e "(message \"hello\")"
> "hello"
> #+end_src

But you aren't on Windows, are you?