From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 2062@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:39:10 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <498019AE.5020805@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvskn4inht.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> It looks like a situation where the variable expansion is expected to be
> done by the application under w32 (just like file globbing is not done
> by the shell there either), contrary to POSIX.
>
Environment variables are expanded in PATH when set as an environment
variable on Windows. Only when using this undocumented registry entry to
set an application specific path does the expansion apparently not happen.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-28 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-01-26 13:00 ` bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-26 22:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-27 1:56 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-27 8:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-27 9:24 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-27 10:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-27 13:29 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-27 14:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-27 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-27 20:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-28 8:39 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2009-01-28 8:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-27 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-27 19:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-28 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-28 8:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-28 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-28 15:15 ` bug#2062: marked as done (PATH can contain non-expanded variables) Emacs bug Tracking System
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