From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@f2s.com>
Cc: 2062@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:25:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0901270225o1cea96dfx4c852bb6e0559667@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497ED2B7.2080509@f2s.com>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:24, Jason Rumney <jasonr@f2s.com> wrote:
> If the system does not handle REG_EXPAND_SZ in the App Paths registry
> values, then the bug is with whatever incorrectly used that type when
> setting the registry value.
I'd say that Microsoft is of two minds about it, judging by the
entries for msimn.exe (Outlook Express), pbrush.exe (mspaint) and a
few others, that do use REG_EXPAND_SZ.
That said, ExpandEnvironmentStrings is not *specifically* for
REG_EXPAND_SZ registry entries; it is generally useful for cases such
as this one.
So we can either:
a) consider it as a bug outsize Emacs, and do nothing, or
b) decide that a variable-like string of the form %VARIABLE% in a
PATH-like value is much, much likely to be that, an unexpanded env
var, than part of a file or directory name, and so expand it.
I'm obviously in camp b), and would like to commit this patch. If
you're strongly on camp a, though, I'll close this bug as notabug +
wontfix.
Juanma
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2009-01-26 13:00 ` bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-26 22:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-27 1:56 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-27 8:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-27 9:24 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-27 10:25 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2009-01-27 13:29 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-27 14:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-27 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-27 20:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-28 8:39 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-28 8:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-27 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-27 19:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-28 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-28 8:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-28 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-28 15:15 ` bug#2062: marked as done (PATH can contain non-expanded variables) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-01-28 19:09 ` bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables Eli Zaretskii
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