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Re: Emacs 24.5 and external-abook
From: |
Thomas S. Dye |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs 24.5 and external-abook |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jun 2015 09:44:55 -1000 |
Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org> writes:
> 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'")
,----------------------------------------------------------------------
| (shell-command-to-string "contacts -lSf '%we\\\"%n\\\"' 'Krickette'")
| "error: no one found
| "
`----------------------------------------------------------------------
> and (in emacs)
> M-! contacts -lSf '%we\"%n\"' 'Krickette'
,--------------------
| error: no one found
`--------------------
> then, in a shell :
> contacts -lSf '%we\"%n\"' 'Krickette'
> (perhaps try the above both in a M-x shell and outside emacs).
M-x shell
,------------------------------------------------
| Reading ~/.bashrc
| bash-3.2$ contacts -lSf '%we\"%n\"' 'Krickette'
| error: no one found
`------------------------------------------------
Outside emacs
,---------------------------------------------------
| Last login: Mon Jun 8 16:04:33 on ttys000
| Reading ~/.bash_profile
| Reading ~/.bashrc
| manifi:~ dk$ contacts -lSf '%we\"%n\"' 'Krickette'
| WORK\"NAME\"
| kmu@tsdye.com\"Krickette Murabayashi\"
`---------------------------------------------------
In summary, no contacts from any of the paths through emacs.
Thanks,
Tom
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