From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Jonathan Leech-Pepin <jonathan.leechpepin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem exporting to PDF (and viewing)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 00:53:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31430.1336884795@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu> of "Sat, 12 May 2012 21:05:24 PDT." <40C7B1BFC291ED4E9D10436D07736A33470478B372@EXMAIL7.haas.uc.berkeley.edu>
Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I think the problem is in the org-mode code that interprets "%s." (and
> how this interacts with my bash shell). This is supposed to pass the
> executable the fully qualified file name, but somehow it ends up
> passing the directory twice, which (understandably) confuses the
> executable.
>
> While this seems to have something to do with the bash shell I'm
> using, this works fine for everything else, so I'm pretty sure there's
> no fundamental problem in my setup, and it would be nice to find a way
> around this problem.
>
> Two thoughts:
>
> 1) Is there another string I could use, instead of %s, that results in
> the file name being passed without the path at all? This would
> probably cure the problem.
>
Don't know, but I don't think so.
> 2) If not, where is the code that interprets %s? I can try stepping
> through it and see what I can find.
>
It happens in org.el:org-open-file, specifically this piece of the
code (I think):
,----
| (while (string-match "%s" cmd)
| (setq cmd (replace-match
| (save-match-data
| (shell-quote-argument
| (convert-standard-filename file)))
| t t cmd)))
`----
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-13 4:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-12 4:10 Problem exporting to PDF (and viewing) Richard Stanton
2012-05-12 14:23 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2012-05-12 14:39 ` Nick Dokos
2012-05-13 4:05 ` Richard Stanton
2012-05-13 4:53 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-05-18 20:56 ` Richard Stanton
2012-05-18 21:11 ` Nick Dokos
2012-05-18 21:45 ` Richard Stanton
2012-05-18 22:19 ` Nick Dokos
2012-05-18 23:30 ` Richard Stanton
2012-05-19 7:07 ` Achim Gratz
2012-05-13 6:00 ` Achim Gratz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-14 5:33 Richard Stanton
2012-05-11 23:52 Richard Stanton
2012-05-12 7:22 ` Jude DaShiell
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