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From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: char syntax of the $ in $var
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:57:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3psxqd6rk.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a050322160571207726@mail.gmail.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:05:18 +0900")

Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com> writes:

>              In sh, the $ is not really part of the name, so having
> emacs think it is can be quite annoying (the case that drives me nuts
> is that dynamic-abbrev won't complete `$FO' based on a previous
> `FOO_BAR=...'); this argues for giving the $ a non-word syntax.

Agree 100%.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-23  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-22 23:03 char syntax of the $ in $var David Hansen
2005-03-23  0:05 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-23  0:43   ` David Hansen
2005-03-23  9:57   ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2005-03-23 13:27   ` Stefan

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