From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: 2062@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:02:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvskn4inht.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497F0C53.5090902@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:29:55 +0800")
>> b) decide that a variable-like string of the form %VARIABLE% in a
>> PATH-like value is much, much likely to be that, an unexpanded env
>> var, than part of a file or directory name, and so expand it.
> If we decide b, then why would we only decide that for Windows (syntax
> excepted)?
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.
So it's definitely not needed in GNU/Linux, and probably not in Mac OS
X either. I cannot judge whether Juanma's patch is doing the right
thing, or is working around some bug/misfeature elsewhere, or is really
doing something wrong (it looks like the second option, tho).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 19:02 UTC|newest]
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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 [this message]
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
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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