From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: find-file-at-point expanding environment variables? Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:31:29 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <87hbne5qj2.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: <4bc4f717$0$6037$c39e29d6@unlimited.newshosting.com> <4bc50ce1$0$30266$c32e2966@unlimited.newshosting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273006436 8726 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 20:53:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 20:53:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 22:53:55 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9P7r-0005q6-1J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 22:53:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49409 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9P7q-0005sB-Gk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 16:53:54 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1271237631 24050 143.93.54.11 (14 Apr 2010 09:33:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:33:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3ZTWEt143kfxTna1mf4C31tg5Ss= Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-088-068-193-081.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177696 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73157 Archived-At: David Rogoff writes: > On 2010-04-13 15:58:31 -0700, David Rogoff said: > >> I could use some help. I use ffap (bound to c-x c-f) all the >> time. However, I edit many files in which there are references to >> filenames that use shell environment variables as part of the path. >> For example - /home/${USER}/.cshrc . Is there a way for ffap to >> expand/substitute this? It would make my life a lot easier. > > I did some experimenting and see that ffap will expand variables > ... except if they are enclosed in curly braces. This isn't too bad a > limitation, but it would be better if I didn't have to edit the files > and remove the curly braces. > > David (add-to-list 'ffap-string-at-point-mode-alist '(file "--:\\\\$+<>@-Z_[:alpha:]~*?{}" "<@" "@>;.,!:")) Try this. -ap