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Re: [h-e-w] problem with dired and "start" command


From: Benjamin Riefenstahl
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] problem with dired and "start" command
Date: 26 Feb 2003 22:15:19 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

Hi Michael,


Michael W Daniels <address@hidden> writes:
> emacs puts the filename in quotation marks when constructing the
> shell command. In other words, hitting "X" and then typing "start"
> while file.txt is selected yields the command line
> 
> start "file.txt"
> 
> What do I need to change so that it generates
> 
> start file.txt

Give the beast what it wants, type 'start ""' instead. 


Hope this helps, benny





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