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Re: Open terminal window from emacs
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Sven Joachim |
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Re: Open terminal window from emacs |
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Sat, 28 Sep 2013 12:06:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On 2013-09-28 10:06 +0200, Frederik wrote:
>> 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.
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> Yeah, thanks, I just skimmed the documentation on default-directory and
> found expand-file-name. It works now. However the behaviour is quite
> strange since the command "urxvt -cd ~/test" works well when launched
> from a terminal...
Your shell expands the tilde then, as it does in Pascal's suggestion.
But call-process does not invoke a shell, in contrast to shell-command.
Cheers,
Sven