From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Completing environmental variable names? Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:30:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87mw2sasd4.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427895058 13609 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2015 13:30:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 13:30:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 01 15:30:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YdIjK-0006WJ-0j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:30:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdIjJ-0006Ji-9w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdIix-0006JU-V4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:30:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdIiv-0001Xv-0D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:30:27 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdIiu-0001Xq-QA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:30:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YdIis-0006GI-Ti for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:30:23 +0200 Original-Received: from 171.red-80-26-206.adsl.dynamic.ccgg.telefonica.net ([80.26.206.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:30:22 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 171.red-80-26-206.adsl.dynamic.ccgg.telefonica.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:30:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 171.red-80-26-206.adsl.dynamic.ccgg.telefonica.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r/sXcEUPhXdIW+dyEtxlZE33Xjk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103482 Archived-At: "Ludwig, Mark" writes: > Has anyone written a hook to complete environmental variable > names? > > Imagine that I have a variable named LONG_ENV_VAR_NAME, and > one called LONG_FOO_VAR_NAME. If I'm finding a file (typing > its name in the minibuffer, the usual way), and after typing > "$LONG_E" I want to press TAB, and have it to complete it to > $LONG_ENV_VAR_NAME and then to expand its value (as it does > already). It works for me on GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2015-03-05 emacs -Q C-x C-f $HO [TAB] expands to $HOME.