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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 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




  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-28 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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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