From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: non-interactive shell Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:27:04 -0600 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206232867 9156 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2008 00:41:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:41:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 23 01:41:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JdEHJ-0001JR-2i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:41:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdEGi-0003AR-EI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:41:00 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:26:59 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.45.140.32 Original-X-Trace: sv3-wCE0fz3N/0dMmOsl9lmLdNmcUDDOhLSSZLc/kYjkc6NSDF18uI1ZjFno1ftHulKQrVDIEtOBe2pQ+R9!VY4386Bi118lm2RwvSMoanQdavVE9y2f+quScLj51NdMs9TPetf8ps7j7lTEautg1ZEuYh3fGqi7!Sd2nTyBmzsJpeCT7NfGJnLfEXilVTg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.37 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157272 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:52642 Archived-At: Apparently it's not possible to make a new directory with: (shell-command (concat "md " path)) where path is some string like "\\a\\b\\c" Is it possible at all to make a directory under the default-directory with elisp and using a variable rather than a literal string. Of course M-! works fine but that requires manual intervention. If this is not possible on the w32 port, can it be done in Emacs under Gnu/Linux? Thanks for any help, Ed