From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, 2062@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: jasonr@f2s.com
Subject: bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:30:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8wowsg0u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0901270225o1cea96dfx4c852bb6e0559667@mail.gmail.com>
> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Cc: 2062@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.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.
What was the use-case that caused Path to include unexpanded
environment variables in your case?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 19:30 UTC|newest]
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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
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 [this message]
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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