Re: Open terminal window from emacs

[Sven Joachim]

On 2013-09-27 22:46 +0200, Frederik wrote:

> I try to open up urxvt from emacs and make the terminal emulator
> automatically switch to the current working directory of the current
> buffer (i.e. to the value of default-directory).

Shouldn't the terminal emulator start in that directory automatically?
At least xterm does, I don't have urxvt around ATM.

> This is what I've come up with:
>
> (call-process "/usr/bin/urxvt" nil 0 nil
>       (concat "-cd" default-directory))
>
> But this doesn't work.
>
> This
> (call-process "/usr/bin/urxvt" nil 0 nil
>       "-cd ~/test")
> doesn't work either, even though the directory exits.
>
> Any pointers?

Seems to me the tilde does not get expanded here, so you would have to
use (expand-file-name default-directory) rather than just
default-directory.

Cheers,
       Sven