In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rui Tiago Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hacked up a bash function [1] to open some files in different
> frames. It works great after emacs is running. Otherwise it doesn't:
> it opens up emacs but I get:
>
> command-line-1: End of file during parsing
>
> Now, this is very strange because if I use --eval=... from the command
> line directly it works as expected. Anyone has an idea about why this
> doesn't work?
Try changing the command line that invokes emacs in that case to:
emacs21 "$CMDLINE"
The problem is that the shell is splitting the arguments at the spaces
when you don't quote it. So the argument that emacs is seeing is:
--eval=(find-file-other frame
>
> [1]
> emacs ()
> {
> if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then
> emacs21 $@;
> else
> if [ ! "`/bin/ps -U $UID | grep emacs`" ]; then
> local CMDLINE="--eval=";
> local FILE;
> for FILE in $*;
> do
> if ( grep ^/ <<< $FILE ) || ( grep ^~ <<< $FILE ); then
> CMDLINE="$CMDLINE(find-file-other-frame \"$FILE\")";
> else
> CMDLINE="$CMDLINE(find-file-other-frame \"$PWD/$FILE\")";
> fi;
> done;
> if [ "$CMDLINE" != "--eval=" ]; then
> emacs21 $CMDLINE &
> else
> emacs21 &
> fi;
> else
> local CMDLINE="-q";
> local FILE;
> for FILE in $*;
> do
> if ( grep ^/ <<< $FILE ) || ( grep ^~ <<< $FILE ); then
> CMDLINE="$CMDLINE (find-file-other-frame \"$FILE\")";
> else
> CMDLINE="$CMDLINE (find-file-other-frame \"$PWD/$FILE\")";
> fi;
> done;
> if [ "$CMDLINE" != "-q" ]; then
> gnudoit $CMDLINE;
> fi;
> fi;
> fi
> }
--
Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arlington, MA
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