From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$" Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 20:07:41 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030706000741.GA27544@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1057450140 17214 80.91.224.249 (6 Jul 2003 00:09:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 00:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 06 02:08:58 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Yx5O-0004TV-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jul 2003 02:08:58 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19YxEV-00033Q-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jul 2003 02:18:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Yx53-000531-Br for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Yx4N-0004Ov-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:07:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Yx4D-0003rb-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Yx4A-0003fe-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19Yx49-0007Bb-Lh; Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:07:41 -0400 Original-To: Michael Albinus Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop Original-cc: Luc Teirlinck X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15403 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15403 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 -- Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory. -- Walter Hines Page