Re: [O] problem with find-file in --eval from command line

[Achim Gratz]

Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:
> The even simpler solution worked for me:
>
>   emacs --eval '(find-file "/home/somefile.org")'

...as I had already said (this also has the charm of working in other
shells, like tcsh).

> with bash (4.1-3) on Debian Linux (testing+unstable).  Not sure why
> others have needed so many escapes on quotes...  note that I'm enclosing
> the sexp in single quotes.  Has something changed in bash from 4.1 to
> 4.2?

For this simple example it's a wash, but sometimes you can't use single
quotes (for instance if you want to have variable expansion) and then
you will still need to know how to escape stuff.


Regards,
Achim.
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