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From: Herbert Sitz <hsitz@nwlink.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: problem with find-file in --eval from command line
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:31:22 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20110824T191832-915@post.gmane.org> (raw)

I'm trying to start emacs from the command line and using an --eval section to
open a file and do some operations.  I'm having a problem with the Linux version.

Here's how I do it without error using the strange quoting in Windows:


--->  emacs --eval ^"( find-file c:/users/myname/somefile.org\^" )^"

In Linux I'm not sure how to do the quoting.  I tried this:

--->  emacs --eval "( find-file "/home/somefile.org" )"

And I get the error:

   Symbols' value as variable is void:  /home/somefile\.org

It seems there's some problem with the period in the filename, but maybe it's
more than that.  Can anyone explain how to properly quote the Linux commandline
version?  (File comes up fine if I just do find-file in a running emacs.)

Thanks,

Herb

next             reply	other threads:[~2011-08-24 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-24 17:31 Herbert Sitz [this message]
2011-08-24 17:54 ` problem with find-file in --eval from command line 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

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