Emacs 24.5 and external-abook

[Thomas S. Dye]

Aloha all,

I recently upgraded to Emacs 24.5 and this apparently broke
external-abook for me.

If I look for my employee, Krickette, then (format
external-abook-command query) returns this:

#("contacts -lSf '%we \"%n\"' 'Krickette'" 26 35 (face message-header-to
 fontified t))

Then, (shell-command-to-string) returns:

"error: no one found
"

However, if I execute the string part of the sequence on the command line:

contacts -lSf '%we\"%n\"' 'Krickette'

then I get what looks like a reasonable response:

kmu@tsdye.com\"Krickette Murabayashi\"

Apologies if this is the wrong place to be asking this question.  Any
and all help much appreciated.

All the best,
Tom
-- 
Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com