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From: Frederik <freak.fred@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Open terminal window from emacs
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:54:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <l261vo$8b8$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l24qrb$vop$1@ger.gmane.org>

> 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).

Ok, the following works for me:
(call-process "/usr/bin/urxvt" nil 0 nil
	      "-cd" (expand-file-name default-directory))

I've no clue why this works, but I'm happy now...

-- 
Frederik




  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-28  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-27 20:46 Open terminal window from emacs Frederik
2013-09-28  7:54 ` Frederik [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.3023.1380314834.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27 21:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-28  7:25   ` Frederik
2013-09-28  7:56 ` Sven Joachim
2013-09-28  8:06   ` Frederik
2013-09-28  9:08   ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3053.1380355638.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-28 10:06     ` Sven Joachim
2013-09-28 11:38       ` Frederik

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