From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Open terminal window from emacs Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:21:08 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87siwqyn97.fsf@informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380317118 27324 80.91.229.3 (27 Sep 2013 21:25:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:25:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 27 23:25:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPfXL-0000Uc-EZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:25:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38588 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPfXK-0000bI-UC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:25:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: individual.net fPDaHPYw8t4E2pyRNGG9zwIpdKI47TakEgdhilXjh3VlMX6Xz8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NGUyMGRhYWRkMDc1YTkyMTk4MmFmYWFjMDk1YjY5OWQ3NWM5MWQ1Ng== sha1:fpHRUN4TwB32H2ge5f0pymPUZu4= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201405 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93674 Archived-At: Frederik writes: > Hey, > > I try to open up urxvt from emacs and make the terminal emulator > automatically switch to the current working directory of the current > buffer (i.e. to the value of default-directory). > > This is what I've come up with: > > (call-process "/usr/bin/urxvt" nil 0 nil > (concat "-cd" default-directory)) > > But this doesn't work. > > This > (call-process "/usr/bin/urxvt" nil 0 nil > "-cd ~/test") > doesn't work either, even though the directory exits. (shell-command (format "cd %S ; /usr/bin/urxvt" default-directory)) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/