Re: Emacs 24.5 and external-abook

[Thomas S. Dye]

Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org> writes:

> tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
>> 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.
>
> There's an obvious difference (thanks to whoever decided to explicitly
> state which config files are read by bash, here !), can it explain the
> difference in behaviour ? i.e. if you source ~/.bash_profile from M-x
> shell before querying, does it get the desired result ?

No, it gets the same result.

,------------------------------------------------
| Reading ~/.bashrc                              
| bash-3.2$ source ~/.bash_profile               
| Reading ~/.bash_profile                        
| Reading ~/.bashrc                              
| bash-3.2$ contacts -lSf '%we\"%n\"' 'Krickette'
| error: no one found                            
`------------------------------------------------

Tom

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