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

[Eric S Fraga]

Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:

> 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).

Ah, sorry, I missed that!

>> 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.

Indeed!
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