From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: term with multiple arguments Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:35:24 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87wqb2mllf.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406241636 5718 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2014 22:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:40:36 +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 Jul 25 00:40:30 2014 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 1XARgT-0006Y9-1h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XARgS-00036K-Kj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:40:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ah9zfCsAxy0FdodYNVr89lhH2w0= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206665 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:98939 Archived-At: Carlos Pita writes: > Is this possible? ... With some other function, should be. > (term "ls /home") > (term "sh -c 'ls /home'") > too many arguments Does it say that? Mine says, for both: Process terminal exited abnormally with code 127 ..: 1: [: sh: unexpected operator ..: 1: exec: sh -c 'ls /home': not found > (term '( "ls" "/home" )) (term [ "ls" "/home" ]) > wrong type argument Somewhere along the line that fails a `stringp' test, i.e., `term' wants a string. > (term "ls" "/home") > wrong number of arguments You can see that this isn't going to work just by `C-h f term': (term PROGRAM) - so one argument. -- underground experts united