From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
Cc: 47790@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:12:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kg7zqz6.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2djn7st.fsf@posteo.net> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:37:20 +0200")
Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Is this a valid setting of an environment variable?
>
> Probably not in emacs with setenv, but in a .profile or .bash_profile,
> maybe,
In shell RC files, double quotes would expand any contained variables.
> at least according to
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
That spec doesn't say anything about variable expansion in different
contexts. IME when someone says "set FOO to $HOME/.foo" without any
further qualification they are implicitly referring to the expansion of
$HOME.
FWIW,
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-15 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-15 8:05 bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash Thierry Volpiatto
2021-04-15 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-15 10:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-04-15 12:12 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2021-04-15 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-24 7:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-04-24 10:58 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-04-24 11:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-04-24 12:19 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
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