Re: start-process somehow expands *.org

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Thierry Volpiatto
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Thierry Volpiatto
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> *.org is the argument to --filepatt and it only takes one argument so
>>>> this can't be done.
>>> So maybe try:
>>> (setq command '(arg1 arg2 arg3 etc...))
>>> (apply 'start-process (downcase mode-name) outbuf "ruby.exe" command)
>>
>> Is not that exactly the same?

> No, but anyway,

I think it will be converted to exactly the same (by apply).

> in this case it won't work because wilcards syntax is
> recognized only inside a shell, so i am afraid you
> will have to use start-process-shell-command who understand *.ext.

I see. You are misunderstanding. I do not want anything to understand
"*.ext". The problem is that something tries to do that. I want it
transferred literally to the ruby script.