Re: Problem quoting expression to be eval'ed by emacsclient

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 23.10.2013 10:33, schrieb Sebastien Vauban:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to evaluate an expression via `emacsclient' (from a Zsh shell),
> for example:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ emacsclient -e "(message \"hello\")"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But all I get is:
>
>    *ERROR*: End of file during parsing
>
> Using `bash -x', I see that's due to a quoting problem:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ bash -x emacsclient -e "(message \"hello\")"
> + 'C:/Program Files (x86)/emacs-trunk/bin/emacsclient' -e '(message' '"hello")'
>
> *ERROR*: End of file during parsing
>
> $ bash -x emacsclient -e '(message \"hello\")'
> + 'C:/Program Files (x86)/emacs-trunk/bin/emacsclient' -e '(message' 
> '\"hello\")'
>
> *ERROR*: End of file during parsing
>
> $ bash -x emacsclient -e \"(message \"hello\")\"
> zsh: no matches found: "(message "hello")"
>
> $ bash -x emacsclient "-e \"(message \"hello\")\""
> + 'C:/Program Files (x86)/emacs-trunk/bin/emacsclient' -e '"(message' 
> '"hello")"'
>
> *ERROR*: End of file during parsing
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But I don't see how to pass the right expression to `emacsclient'. Is there
> anybody able to help me sort this out?  TIA!
>
> Best regards,
>    Seb

Maybe something with  batch-mode?

That works here, however not emacsclient:

emacs -Q --batch --eval "(message \"%s\" \"hello\")"