Re: open file listed in a text file

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh@gmail.com> writes:

> On Feb 9, 2:37 am, William Xu <william....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It seems that his file path includes an environment variable:
>>
>>   $(SCRIPTS_HOME)/definitions.tcl
>>
>> Vim is smart...  An elisp function may be needed to achieve that.  
>
>
> I have full control over the env variable. Imagine it is set with a
> sort of cshrc file.
>
> I just learnt that even nedit can open that file with Ctrl-Y. Surely
> emacs must have an equivalent.
>
> Chitlesh

Maybe you could use an before advice on the function
`substitute-in-file-name', that transforms the variables into a format
which the function understands.

%FOO%,$(FOO) -> ${FOO}

-ap