Subject: Re: bug#32801: 26.1; (shell-command-to-string command) discrepancy in GUI vs terminal

From: Alan Third <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 22:31:19 +0000

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 02:53:25AM +0200, Jayesh Bhat wrote:
> 3a. Open emacs from Terminal
> 
> # open -n /Applications/Emacs.app --args -q
> 
> M-x ielm
> 
> *** Welcome to IELM ***  Type (describe-mode) for help.
> ELISP> (shell-command-to-string "pwd")
> " ]7;file://JayeshMacBook.local/Users/jayesh /Users/jayesh\n"

Mine doesn’t do that. Are you using some sort of iCloud sync thing?
What do you get if you just type pwd in the terminal?

It’s worth noting that the environment is different when you run an
app from the terminal versus when you run it from the GUI. All sorts
of things are different.
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Alan Third