Re: "ShellExecute failed" -- Emacs 24.4 on Win7

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:25:39 -0500
> 
> I installed Emacs 24.4 on Windows 7 from GNU.
> 
> Everything works, except some of my links in orgmode. They worked under Emacs 
> 24.3 and Win7, and they work with Emacs 24.4 under Linux.
> 
> The non-working links have a certain structure: I'm using shorcuts. I have a 
> file "AW-org-file.el", containing lines like:
> 
> (setq org-link-abbrev-alist
> '((name . "//SBS2011/path/to/folder/%s")))
> 
> This file "AW-org-file.el" is required in my .emacs
> 
> The links in the org-files look like this:
> 
> [[name:filename]]
> 
> or
> 
> [[name:./path/down/the/folder/filename.pdf]]
> 
> With cursor on the link I do "C-c C-o" and get:
> 
> "ShellExecute failed: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden."
> 
> (my translation: the system can not find the file).
> 
> Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou I did: 
> 
>  M-: (org-element-property :path (org-element-context))
> 
> with the point on a link and got an "expanded" path plus filename. OK, except 
> that it contains slashes ( "/" ) instead of backslashes.
> 
> I'd be thankful for a helping hand,

Report this as a bug using "M-x report-emacs-bug RET".  In that
report, please provide a minimal Org file which can be used to
reproduce this problem, and also include the steps to reproduce the
problem starting from "emacs -Q".

Thanks.