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
