From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with find-file in --eval from command line
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:03:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uw8jh23.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739godwzj.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:16:16 +0200")
Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:
> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>> The even simpler solution worked for me:
>>
>> emacs --eval '(find-file "/home/somefile.org")'
>
> ...as I had already said (this also has the charm of working in other
> shells, like tcsh).
Ah, sorry, I missed that!
>> with bash (4.1-3) on Debian Linux (testing+unstable). Not sure why
>> others have needed so many escapes on quotes... note that I'm enclosing
>> the sexp in single quotes. Has something changed in bash from 4.1 to
>> 4.2?
>
> For this simple example it's a wash, but sometimes you can't use single
> quotes (for instance if you want to have variable expansion) and then
> you will still need to know how to escape stuff.
Indeed!
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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
: using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.205.gce02a)
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-24 17:31 problem with find-file in --eval from command line Herbert Sitz
2011-08-24 17:54 ` Achim Gratz
2011-08-24 18:11 ` Herbert Sitz
2011-08-24 18:48 ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2011-08-25 1:45 ` Herbert Sitz
2011-08-26 12:45 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-08-26 15:16 ` Achim Gratz
2011-08-26 16:03 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
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