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From: Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu>
To: "nicholas.dokos@hp.com" <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
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 13:56:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C7B1BFC291ED4E9D10436D07736A33470478BC1E@EXMAIL7.haas.uc.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31430.1336884795@alphaville>

> > 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"

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 20:56 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 [this message]
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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