From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 2062@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, jasonr@f2s.com
Subject: bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:55:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0901271155n2d5e03b9q85b0eb94cd01f6a9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u8wowsg0u.fsf@gnu.org>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 20:30, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> What was the use-case that caused Path to include unexpanded
> environment variables in your case?
In *my* case, I run several instances of Emacs, and I put different
binaries (image libraries, etc.) in several directories, pointed to by
one environment variable. I always start Emacs from the command line,
and I set the environment variable according to which Emacs I want to
run and what additional binaries to use. I have the App Path set to
C:\emacs\%myvar%\bin, where %myvar% points to the relevant dir.
But my use case is not important: there are many ways to do what I do,
and I'm not even claiming mine is optimal, or close to it.
If I want to fix that (or work around it, if it is a Windows bug) is
because certainly there's nothing precluding the user from setting a
REG_EXPAND_SZ for PATH, or EMACSPATH or EMACSLOADPATH, and there seems
to be no downside to this change, unless we deem
C:\this\is%myweird%path\to\file likely.
But this does not merit too long a discussion IMO. Either you (all)
think it's useful, or hackish. Your call.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 19:55 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <f7ccd24b0901280707u39a4364bk76339f2e5956fa5@mail.gmail.com>
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
2009-01-28 8:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-27 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-27 19:55 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
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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