From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$"
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 20:07:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030706000741.GA27544@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nqllvcmun7.fsf@alcatel.de>
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 01:16:44AM +0200, Michael Albinus wrote:
> At least the examples in the Elisp manual give the feeling that
> substitute-in-file-name could be called without special attention. The
> trap with the "$" char isn't obvious.
Consider that the environment-variable's _value_ could contain a `$', so it
seems actually fairly obvious that you should only call
substitute-in-file-name once...
-Miles
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-06 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-05 16:44 substitute-in-file-name and "$" Michael Albinus
2003-07-05 18:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-05 23:16 ` Michael Albinus
2003-07-05 23:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-06 12:20 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-07-06 12:44 ` Miles Bader
2003-07-06 14:30 ` Michael Albinus
2003-07-06 16:24 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-07-06 16:53 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-07-07 15:48 ` Michael Albinus
2003-07-06 0:07 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-07-06 12:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-07-06 14:37 ` Michael Albinus
2003-07-06 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-07-06 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-07-07 11:50 ` Michael Albinus
2003-07-07 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-07-07 16:10 ` Michael Albinus
2003-07-09 23:47 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-07 3:39 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-07 21:33 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-07-08 20:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-06 18:53 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-06 23:46 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-07-06 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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