Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> 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). > 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. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ DIY Stuff: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/DIY.html