RE: [h-e-w] sending filenames from command-line

[Dave Humphries]

Have you tried escaping them eg C:\\sys\\emacs...  ?

Dave

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Subject: [h-e-w] sending filenames from command-line 

I'm trying to write a DOSKEY macro such that from a CMD.EXE window I can

say:
   C:\>dired path
and the macro will invoke gnudoit (or gnuclientw with the -e option) to 
get Emacs to 
load dired on the specified path.

This is what I started with: 
(I'm using the 23.0.0.1 ntemacs.sourceforge.net build and it's gnuclient

which 
supports the -s and -e parameters)

dired=c:\sys\emacs\bin\gnuclientw.exe -sqe "(progn (raise-frame) (dired 
(\"%CD%\")))"

BUT, of course the expansion of %CD% in the command prompt results in 
stuff with 
backslashes:
  c:\sys\emacs\lisp

which, when passed to Emacs get cooked and ends up like "c:
ys^[macs:isp".

I thought "I need to do an 'expand-file-name' or 
'convert-standard-filename' or something 
like that around the %CD%".  I found a quick "convert backslashes to 
forward slashes"
function and tried that,  but nothing I've tried has worked - probably 
because the string 
is getting cooked before the elisp expression is evaluated.  Is there
some 
way to better 
quote it in the doskey macro to protect it from cooking until the elisp 
can be evaluated?

Thanks,

Rob Davenport