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From: AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Set org-file-apps to open a *.doc file under linux with Word ?
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To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
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Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2013, 20:51:04 schrieb Jambunathan K:
> AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de> writes:
> > Thank you, customization worked, but it did not start word -- I'm going
> > another way now.
> 
> I am playing a guessing game and really don't know what I am saying.
> 
> Try this.
> 
> 
>     M-: (shell-quote-argument (read-string "Enter string:"))
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> When prompted enter
> 
>     whatever wine whatever "%s"
> 
> Now put whatever string you get in *Pp Eval Output* DIRECTLY in to your
> .emacs.  See the attached snippet.el for what I get.
> 
> Instead of passing env as part of the command, I think you can add this
> to your .emacs.
> 
>     (setenv "WINEPREFIX" "/home/AW/.wine-office")
> 
> You can also do
> 
>     M-x setenv
> 
> to set environment variables.

I found out, that things are much more complicated: 

I wrote a bash script "word.sh" (see my other mail on this) and tried to figure 
out how to pass a filename to it. Even this is not obvious, because from the 
viewpoint of Word under Wine filenames differ from the real filename in the 
system. I did not suceed to make Word start and open a file foo.docx. You know, 
something weird as

"word.sh" "C:/users/AW/Meine Dokumente/Dokumente/temp/foo.docx"

made Word start, but not open a document, and Word complains about missing dot 
something. And often people send files with names which are a pain to read, 
including "$" -signs, brackets and whatever. 

The whole thing is way too difficult for me and I have to dismiss the idea.

Thanks to you and everyone who offered help, but it was not a good idea.

Regards,

Alexander