From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: 2062@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:42:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0901270642t47e7d247jd271795283ab8413@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497F0C53.5090902@gnu.org>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 14:29, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
> If we decide b, then why would we only decide that for Windows (syntax
> excepted)?
No particular reason, except that REG_EXPAND_SZ exists, and so, having
variables in PATH is not uncommon on Windows, while it is perhaps
uncommon in other OSes. But that's no reason not to generalize it, if
deemed useful, of course.
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
2009-01-27 13:29 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-27 14:42 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
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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