Start windows applications (.exe, .bat) from .emacs

Start windows applications (.exe, .bat) from .emacs

[Will]

Hi, there!

I'd like to start some windows applications which constitute my working 
environment (e.g. firefox.exe or mysettings.bat) when I start emacs.
How can I do that using the regular MS Windows CMD-shell?
Is there also a way to set MS Windows environment variables in your 
.emacs or the called .bat file?

Thanks for your help in advance,

Will

Re: Start windows applications (.exe, .bat) from .emacs

[Ivan]

On петък, Май 25 2007, Will wrote:

> Hi, there!
>
> I'd like to start some windows applications which constitute my
> working environment (e.g. firefox.exe or mysettings.bat) when I start
> emacs.
> How can I do that using the regular MS Windows CMD-shell?
> Is there also a way to set MS Windows environment variables in your
> .emacs or the called .bat file?

You can execute executables this way:

(shell-command "path to executable")

It can do it synchronously or a-synchronously. Find more information
in the manual.

Re: Start windows applications (.exe, .bat) from .emacs

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Will wrote:
> Hi, there!
> 
> I'd like to start some windows applications which constitute my working 
> environment (e.g. firefox.exe or mysettings.bat) when I start emacs.
> How can I do that using the regular MS Windows CMD-shell?
> Is there also a way to set MS Windows environment variables in your 
> .emacs or the called .bat file?


(w32-shell-execute "Open" "http://www.gnu.org/")

Re: Start windows applications (.exe, .bat) from .emacs

[Will]

Hi!

Thanks for the comments sofar. However this command does not execute the 
batch file:

(w32-shell-execute "open" "z:\00_Preferences\Emacs\emacsW32.bat")

----emacsW32.bat-------

ECHO "Emacs - Win32 Batch Execution File "

SET PATH=%PATH%; C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat; C:\Program 
Files\Ghostgum\gsview;C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.56\bin;C:\Program 
Files\Mozilla_Firefox;C:\Program Files\SAS\SAS 9.1;C:\Program 
Files\Tinn-R\bin
start thunderbird.exe
start firefox.exe
start explorer.exe

----emacsW32.bat-------

On the other side, I can start the batch file with C-x d RET ! when I am 
in dired.

What do I do wrong?

Thanks for advice,

Will


Will skrev:
> Hi, there!
> 
> I'd like to start some windows applications which constitute my working 
> environment (e.g. firefox.exe or mysettings.bat) when I start emacs.
> How can I do that using the regular MS Windows CMD-shell?
> Is there also a way to set MS Windows environment variables in your 
> .emacs or the called .bat file?
> 
> Thanks for your help in advance,
> 
> Will