From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: open file listed in a text file
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:19:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837hqme0h2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21glaavjdl9p.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35:14 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:08:37 +0800
> >>
> >> Except both emacs & vim don't recognize environment variable on
> >> Windows XP.
> >
> > How do you see that?
>
> On Windows XP, I tried `ffap' with:
> %HOME%/.emacs.d
>
> which i assume is similar to: (in GNU/Linux)
> $HOME/.emacs.d
>
> ffap could open the path successfully on GNU/Linux.
>
> While it looks like on Windows XP, ffap also understands $HOME, but not
> %HOME%.
That's by design: Emacs supports the $FOO notation on all platforms,
and does not support DOS/Windows-specific %FOO% syntax. Here's an
example:
(substitute-in-file-name "$ComSpec") => "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-09 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-07 13:34 open file listed in a text file Chitlesh Goorah
2010-02-07 14:38 ` José A. Romero L.
2010-02-07 22:09 ` Chitlesh Goorah
2010-02-08 2:57 ` Barry Margolin
2010-02-08 12:22 ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-09 1:37 ` William Xu
2010-02-09 2:08 ` William Xu
2010-02-09 2:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-09 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-09 5:35 ` William Xu
2010-02-09 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.889.1265679652.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-09 21:02 ` Chitlesh Goorah
2010-02-09 23:01 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-02-10 11:03 ` Andreas Politz
[not found] ` <mailman.959.1265756505.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-11 8:04 ` Chitlesh Goorah
2010-02-11 9:21 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-02-11 9:31 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-02-11 16:09 ` Drew Adams
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