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Re: no-word.el fails on Windows NT
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poti |
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Re: no-word.el fails on Windows NT |
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Thu, 31 May 2007 02:33:13 -0400 |
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On 10:21 Thu 24 May , Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > ..., when I visit a doc file on Windows NT, I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > - is not a Word Document.
> >
> >
> > This appears to be related to the following elisp code:
> > (if file (replace-regexp-in-string " " "\\ " file t t) "-")
> > which is concatenated to the command "antiword" and options.
> > This is in the no-word function, where file is optional.
> > Apparently, visiting the file does not pass a file to this function.
>
...
> I think this is a bug in no-word.el: it assumes that the shell invoked
> by shell-command-on-region is a Unixy shell, and so uses that shell's
> quoting rules to escape-protect spaces in file names. But on Windows,
> the standard shell is cmd.exe, which doesn't understand those quoting
> rules.
>
> Try to change the above line to this (untested):
>
> (if file (setq file (shell-quote-argument file)))
>
> (this uses the quoting rules suitable for the underlying platform's
> shell).
>
...
>
> Also, you should probably report the problem to the author.
>
With the help of the author, I was able to come up with a solution.
Rather than treating "-" as input from stdin, Windows treated "-" as
a filename. Changing this to (buffer-name) worked across platforms. I
added shell quoting, for good measure. Unless I hear of a more elegant
solution, I will update no-word.el on the Emacs wiki.
Thank you for the help.
-Poti
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