Re: Open terminal window from emacs

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Frederik <freak.fred@gmail.com> writes:

> Hey,
>
> I try to open up urxvt from emacs and make the terminal emulator
> automatically switch to the current working directory of the current
> buffer (i.e. to the value of default-directory).
>
> This is what I've come up with:
>
> (call-process "/usr/bin/urxvt" nil 0 nil
>       (concat "-cd" default-directory))
>
> But this doesn't work.
>
> This
> (call-process "/usr/bin/urxvt" nil 0 nil
>       "-cd ~/test")
> doesn't work either, even though the directory exits.

(shell-command (format "cd %S ; /usr/bin/urxvt" default-directory))

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