From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: *shell* TAB *Completions* fooled by $PWD/ Date: 11 Jul 2002 22:26:58 +0900 Organization: Global Online Japan Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87znwyxun1.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <87vg7rutpk.fsf@jidanni.org> <200207081820.g68IKeP12935@aztec.santafe.edu> <87bs9hkatg.fsf@jidanni.org> <3D2C6579.3020005@ihs.com> <200207111201.g6BC1Nx16935@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026394111 6031 127.0.0.1 (11 Jul 2002 13:28:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Sdzi-0001Yt-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:28:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Se0R-0006dw-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbox4.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.56]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17SdzG-0006bd-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from nnrp.gol.com (nnrp.gol.com [203.216.7.70]) by mailbox4.ucsd.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6BDR14k069178 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 06:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from news by nnrp.gol.com with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17SdyF-00054m-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:26:59 +0900 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: tc-2-218.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp Original-X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1026394019 19033 203.216.25.218 (11 Jul 2002 13:26:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:26:59 +0000 (UTC) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu X-MailScanner: Passed Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2625 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2625 rms@gnu.org (Richard Stallman) writes: > Perhaps this means that Shell mode commands should never expand > environment variables. If we leave it for the shell to expand them, > it will at least expand them consistently. > > What do people think about this? Are there cases where Shell mode > commands that expand envvars which would be greatly missed? YES!! I use (constant) environment variables _constantly_ and I heavily depend on them being expanded by completion in shell mode! I think this `problem' is very minor, and in fact we really don't need to change anything. -Miles -- Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here, beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?