expand $vars and ~users

expand $vars and ~users

[Dan Jacobson]

In *shell*, environment variable are expanded with ease, $bla<TAB>,
but why not when you are entering on the minibuffer for C-x C-f?

For ~b<TAB> to expand to ~bob/ one needs the real shell, as the above
don't do it. 

Re: expand $vars and ~users

[Ehud Karni]

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:10:13 +0800, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
> 
> In *shell*, environment variable are expanded with ease, $bla<TAB>,
> but why not when you are entering on the minibuffer for C-x C-f?

In your .emacs Do:
    (require 'complete)            ;;Better completions for Emacs
    (partial-completion-mode 1)    ;;start it now
The 1st line may be redundant because `partial-completion-mode' is
auto loaded. Now $foo<tab> will expand to your environment variable.

> For ~b<TAB> to expand to ~bob/ one needs the real shell, as the above
> don't do it. 

That is a real problem.

Would you like to contribute code that does it ?

Ehud.


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Re: expand $vars and ~users

[Dan Jacobson]

Ehud>     (partial-completion-mode 1)
OK, but now
Find file or URL: ~/.pr[TAB]
gives "[No Match]". I.e. it is interfering with my basic layer of
habits.  It only happens with my complex http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt