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It would be nice to have a way to easily (or even automatically) integrate the existing commands with embark.

Hi!

It would be great if this package had eshell integration so that I could run elisp functions on the files.

I didn't see any mention of it in the readme or any issue.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

Consider the following defun:

    (defun dwim-shell-command-thumbnail-with-ffmpeg ()
      "Generate a thumbnail with ffmpeg."
      (interactive)
      (dwim-shell-command-on-marked-files
       "Thumbnail with ffmpeg"
       " ffmpeg -i '<<f>>' -vf  \"thumbnail,scale=640:360\" -frames:v 1 '<<td>>/<<fne>>.png'"
       :utils "ffmpeg"
       :silent-success t))

This fails with dwim-shell-command--escaped-quote-around: Couldn’t figure out how to quote for " ffmpeg -i '<<f>>' -vf "thumbnail,scale=640:360" -frames:v 1 '<<td>>/<<fne>>.png'" using / and .

If instead the command is " ffmpeg -i '<<f>>' -vf \"thumbnail,scale=640:360\" -frames:v 1 '<<fne>>.png'", (ie, omitting the temporary directory), this succeeds.

how does <> work? omitting the explicit / path separator doesn't seem to matter, nor does hardcoding a /tmp/ instead of using <<td>>.

(my actual goal here is to generate temporary thumbnails for videos, so what i really want is something like " ffmpeg -i '<<f>>' -vf \"thumbnail,scale=640:360\" -frames:v 1 '<<td>>/<<fne>>.png' && feh <<td>>/<<fne>>.png", but omitting the && ... clause doesn't affect the error here. I'm also a little curious about how to use <>; maybe i can just pipe the png into feh and avoid the file entirely, but i don't know how.)

I'm trying to write a function using this tool to copy files over an ssh connection. Here is what I'm trying to achieve:

• Using Dired tramp to navigate to a remote machine.
• Trying to call the following function on a remote file

(defun my/dwim-shell-command-copy-from-remote-dir ()
    "Convert all marked videos to optimized gif(s)."
    (interactive)
    (dwim-shell-command-on-marked-files
     "Copy to local"
     "scp <<f>> ~/"))

• The library gives an error that says '/ssh:[email protected]:/home/tareef/file.org': No such file or directory

The scp tool expects a path that starts with username@ip, but the <<f>> path starts with /ssh:, which makes the command fails.

What is the proper way to handle this situation?

When there is nothing on the killring, anything that calls to dwim-shell-command--expand-file-template fails with that error, even if <<cb>> is not being used

it comes from (current-kill 0) in:

  (setq template (replace-regexp-in-string "\\(\<\<cb\>\>\\)" (or (current-kill 0)
                                                              (user-error "Nothing in clipboard"))

as long as you copy anything it works fine, but tripped me out when things stopped working on a recently restarted machine :)

I can reproduce it doing (setq kill-ring nil) and then running a dwim-shell-command

Hi, not sure at what point it started to happen but dwim-shell-commands-open-externally doesnt seem to work anymore on linux (on macos it does work) the function runs and seems to complete successfully but nothing really happens

running xdg-open from the terminal does work, and running it from dired as !xdg-open also works so i think it's something with dwim-shell-command, but i couldn't pinpoint exactly what it is

happy to help if there is anything i can do
thanks!

It appears as though dwim-shell-command requires zsh? Is that the case? Are we able to customize it to use bash, or another shell?

Thanks!

👋 --

I'm a doom-emacs user (as such, as you can imagine, I don't have very good understanding of how packages get loaded, etc.)

I wanted to try out this package, but I ran into some trouble. I don't think it's necessarily an issue with dwim-shell-command - (I could be doing something wrong), but also, I figured you could help.

Basically, whenever I run a command, I get the error: Symbol's function definition is void: string-replace

• Indeed, when I run describe-function, string-replace is not defined.
• I don't see it defined in your package.
• I tried re-evaluating all the (require ___) statements that your package depends on, thinking maybe there was something about how I included your package that the dependencies weren't run (or that I didn't have them on my system). But all the require statements happily evaluated, and string-replace is still not defined.
• I also looked through your dotfiles to see if it was maybe something you defined on your instance, and I didn't seen anything there.

So, what am I missing? Where does string-replace come from?

Thanks for your help 😄

when using dwim-shell-command with dired to mark and operate on multiple files with horrible names like foo (1).zip or november '21 datasheet.xls, no quoting is applied in the <<*>> noweb form. Could this become an option? Right now, you'll get errors like zsh:1: unmatched ' instead.

I would love to see an user option like dwim-shell-command-delete-succeded-buffers which deletes the buffers which can be nil by default. At the end of the day, I have many of those buffers open: ✅ *Clone dwim-shell-command* done and I very rarely, if ever, need to check the buffer when the process succeeded - but entirely different story when it failed.

What do you think?

When I run dwim-shell-commands-open-with, the segment (get-text-property 0 'path selection) returns nil and the command can't execute. The error output looks like:

+zsh:1> open -a nil /Users/tdstoff/Pictures/logos/AIAA_logo.jpg
Unable to find application named 'nil'

If I replace that segment with selection it works, even just working on the current buffer. Is anything besides selection actually needed?

This command is great BTW, one step closer to 100% living in Emacs.

I have some commands, that I want to run in a project root, and I'm primarily interested in the std out/err of them. When I bind default-directory to project root what happens is:

• a dired buffer is popped (with a directory of containing the file that was visited when the command has been called).
• buffer of the command output does not exist.

An example command, that exhibits this behaviour is:

(defun dwim-shell-command-hello-world-in-project-root ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((default-directory (project-root (project-current))))
    (dwim-shell-command-execute-script "hello world"
                                       "echo \"[$(pwd)] Hello World!\"")))

As a workaround I'm using injection of the project root into the script, like in the following example:

(defun dwim-shell-command-hello-world-in-project-root ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((project-root (project-root (project-current))))
    (dwim-shell-command-execute-script
     "hello world"
     (format "cd '%s'
              echo \"[$(pwd)] Hello World!\""
             project-root))))

However, I think I prefer the former solution better. It's not only shorter, but I think more robust as well, i.e., it's easy to forget about quoting the argument to cd (would that prevent all corner cases?).