Re: Emacs 24.5 and external-abook

[Nicolas Richard]

tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
> A mystery to me is the return from (shell-command-to-string), which is
> called by (external-abook-search).  I'm expecting the result of
> (shell-command-to-string) to reflect output I get on the command line,
> not "error: no one found".

Reasonable expectation, indeed.

Could you try
    (shell-command-to-string "contacts -lSf '%we\\\"%n\\\"' 'Krickette'")
and (in emacs)
    M-! contacts -lSf '%we\"%n\"' 'Krickette'
then, in a shell :
    contacts -lSf '%we\"%n\"' 'Krickette'
(perhaps try the above both in a M-x shell and outside emacs).

And see what they return ?

Nico.