From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: opening file in unix emacs Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:22:22 +0100 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <7785BF1FE7B8C142A802CA73435BCB0A0385A86E@US-BOS-MX002.na.pxl.int> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131474710 10237 80.91.229.2 (8 Nov 2005 18:31:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 08 19:31:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZYBH-00051Z-Vq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:26:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZYBH-0004tl-DH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 13:26:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fiinbeck.math.ntnu.no Original-X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1131474106 18150 129.241.15.140 (8 Nov 2005 18:21:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:21:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d0AeO7TEhvVMDFAayZdqUVfXPd8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135323 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:30916 Archived-At: + GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri): | SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pa1.1:/usr/local/lib/pa1.1/X11 \ | /usr/local/bin/emacs-run $@ That last bit should be "$@" (with quotes). Otherwise, it will fail when invoked with arguments containing spaces. (There used to be some systems whose shells required the bizarre syntax ${1+"$@"} or something equally weird, but I think those have been buried by now.) -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen - Debating gives most of us much more psychological satisfaction than thinking does: but it deprives us of whatever chance there is of getting closer to the truth. -- C.P. Snow