From: Frederik <freak.fred@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Open terminal window from emacs
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:38:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l26f31$gji$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3i1ntuv.fsf@turtle.gmx.de>
Am 28.09.2013 12:06, schrieb Sven Joachim:
> On 2013-09-28 10:06 +0200, Frederik wrote:
>
>>> Seems to me the tilde does not get expanded here, so you would have to
>>> use (expand-file-name default-directory) rather than just
>>> default-directory.
>>
>> Yeah, thanks, I just skimmed the documentation on default-directory and
>> found expand-file-name. It works now. However the behaviour is quite
>> strange since the command "urxvt -cd ~/test" works well when launched
>> from a terminal...
>
> Your shell expands the tilde then, as it does in Pascal's suggestion.
> But call-process does not invoke a shell, in contrast to shell-command.
>
> Cheers,
> Sven
>
I see. Thanks for the clarification!
Regards,
--
Frederik
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[not found] <mailman.3023.1380314834.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27 21:21 ` Open terminal window from emacs 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 [this message]
2013-09-27 20:46 Frederik
2013-09-28 7:54 ` Frederik
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