From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: avoid interpretation of \n, \t, ... in string Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:52:16 -0700 Message-ID: References: <665cbb9b-8140-489e-a4d8-a15acce224be@r37g2000prr.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233129176 30492 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2009 07:52:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:52:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 08:54:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LS5FR-0002xJ-J0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:54:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44213 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5E9-0000Au-KM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:52:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5Dn-0000Ag-ME for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:52:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5Dm-00008V-2S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:52:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43601 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5Dl-00008I-WD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:52:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:58035) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LS5Dl-0002wF-Bw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LS5Dj-0002qY-Jp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:52:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5Dg-0006Hd-4L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:52:20 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:52:20 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:52:20 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: <665cbb9b-8140-489e-a4d8-a15acce224be@r37g2000prr.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61715 Archived-At: Peter Tury wrote: > I would like to pass paths to shell (extrenal command line programs) > on MS Windows. The paths may contain \n, \t etc. (Eg. c: > \directory-1\new-dir\temp...). However, the string is "evaluated" and > only the result arrives to the shell program. (In the above example: c: > \directory-1 > ew-dir emp...) > > I try to use `call-process-shell-command'. > > I know I could use double back-slash (e.g. c:\directory-1\\new-dir\ > \temp...), but I want to be able to handle any paths in their > "natural" form. How to do it? Where do these strings come from? -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA