From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: setenv and find-file
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 10:34:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sj1krbb6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9828F7A60D@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local>
> From: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 21:07:51 +0000
>
> In shell:
> $ echo ${VARIABLE}
> /a/very/long/path
> $ emacs &
> Inside emacs:
> C-x C-f ${VARIABLE}/to/work <== Finds "/a/very/long/path/to/work".
> (setenv "VARIABLE" "/shorter/path")
> => "/shorter/path"
> M-! echo ${VARIABLE}
> "/shorter/path"
> M-x shell
> In shell inside emacs:
> $ echo ${VARIABLE}
> "/shorter/path"
> Back in emacs:
> C-x C-f ${VARIABLE}/to/Grandmothers/house
> This finds the file "/a/very/long/path/to/Grandmothers/house", where I sort of expect it to find "/shorter/path/to/Grandmothers/house".
I cannot reproduce this. What version of Emacs is this, and on what
OS?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-18 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-17 15:29 setenv and find-file Doug Lewan
2013-05-17 19:14 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-17 20:52 ` andrea crotti
2013-05-17 21:07 ` Doug Lewan
2013-05-18 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-05-20 11:42 ` Doug Lewan
2013-05-20 12:04 ` setenv and find-file (I take it back.) Doug Lewan
2013-05-18 10:07 ` setenv and find-file Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.27.1368871635.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-18 11:36 ` Barry Margolin
2013-05-18 18:09 ` Peter Dyballa
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