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: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:11:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12464.1337375470@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu> of "Fri, 18 May 2012 13:56:19 PDT." <40C7B1BFC291ED4E9D10436D07736A33470478BC1E@EXMAIL7.haas.uc.berkeley.edu>
Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > > 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)))
> > `----
>
> I did some tracing through, and have found where things go wrong.
>
> At the start of the code listed above,
>
> cmd = "c:/progra~1/sumatrapdf/sumatrapdf.exe %s"
> file = "c:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
>
> (convert-standard-filename file) returns
> "C:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
>
> So far so good...
>
> However,
>
> (shell-quote-argument (convert-standard-filename file)) returns
> "c\\:dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
>
Does it really drop the slash in front of "dropbox"? When I do that
on my system, the : is quoted, but the slash is left alone:
(setq s "C:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf")
"C:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
(shell-quote-argument s)
"C\\:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
system-type
gnu/linux
If it does indeed drop the slash, can you try just putting it back and leaving
the backslashes alone?
Nick
> That's where the problem occurs. After this block of code is completed, cmd takes the value
> "c:/progra~1/sumatrapdf/sumatrapdf.exe c\\:dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
>
> This command causes sumatrapdf to squawk with an error. It's the "\\:" that causes the problem. If, after this block of code executes, I manually switch the "\\:" back to ":/", so cmd goes back to
>
> "c:/progra~1/sumatrapdf/sumatrapdf.exe c:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
>
> and then press "c" to continue, the PDF file pops up just fine. Could we just drop the call to shell-quote-argument? It seems like everything would work fine without this call.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-18 21:11 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
2012-05-18 20:56 ` Richard Stanton
2012-05-18 21:11 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
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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