From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: miles@gnu.org, snogglethorpe@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-name-shadow-mode
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:47:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5ll8i9mt9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503201824.j2KIOw005606@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:24:58 -0600 (CST)")
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> [I think it's probably possible to fix this -- e.g., by generating a
> regexp of all non-absolute environment variables and glomming it onto
> the rexexp used for filenames. But my basic point is that it scarcely
> matters.]
>
> Could you try fixing it that way?
>
> It would probably be a lot better to do the complement: look for all
> environment variables whose value starts with / or ~. Emacs
> supports file names that start with $ if the $ is not followed by an
> environment variable, or if the $ is doubled up. I may be
> overlooking something obvious, but is therE a reason not to use
> `getenv'?
The more robust solution would probably be to see what happens when
using substitute-in-file-name on the substring starting with $, and
see whether the result is an absolute file name.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-20 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-17 9:16 file-name-shadow-mode David Kastrup
2005-03-17 12:16 ` file-name-shadow-mode Matt Hodges
2005-03-18 1:56 ` file-name-shadow-mode Miles Bader
2005-03-18 1:59 ` file-name-shadow-mode Miles Bader
2005-03-18 2:17 ` file-name-shadow-mode Nick Roberts
2005-03-18 4:35 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-18 4:47 ` file-name-shadow-mode Stefan Monnier
2005-03-18 4:55 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-18 5:18 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-18 5:37 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-18 18:20 ` file-name-shadow-mode Richard Stallman
2005-03-19 15:21 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-19 15:45 ` file-name-shadow-mode David Kastrup
2005-03-19 16:45 ` file-name-shadow-mode Stefan Monnier
2005-03-20 2:14 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-20 14:13 ` file-name-shadow-mode Stefan Monnier
2005-03-20 16:02 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-20 16:18 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-20 2:30 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-20 3:33 ` file-name-shadow-mode Miles Bader
2005-03-20 4:28 ` file-name-shadow-mode David Kastrup
2005-03-20 17:30 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-20 18:10 ` file-name-shadow-mode David Kastrup
2005-03-21 1:19 ` file-name-shadow-mode Richard Stallman
2005-03-20 18:01 ` file-name-shadow-mode Richard Stallman
2005-03-20 18:24 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-20 18:47 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-03-20 21:11 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-20 21:25 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-21 13:44 ` file-name-shadow-mode Stefan Monnier
2005-03-21 22:24 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-21 23:00 ` file-name-shadow-mode Stefan Monnier
2005-03-22 20:44 ` file-name-shadow-mode Richard Stallman
2005-03-28 21:32 ` file-name-shadow-mode Stefan Monnier
2005-03-21 13:24 ` file-name-shadow-mode Stefan Monnier
2005-03-21 14:05 ` file-name-shadow-mode David Kastrup
2005-03-21 16:48 ` file-name-shadow-mode Stefan Monnier
2005-03-22 3:34 ` file-name-shadow-mode Richard Stallman
2005-03-21 14:26 ` file-name-shadow-mode Miles Bader
2005-03-21 15:14 ` file-name-shadow-mode David Kastrup
2005-03-21 15:47 ` file-name-shadow-mode David Kastrup
2005-03-21 16:58 ` file-name-shadow-mode Stefan Monnier
2005-03-21 23:57 ` file-name-shadow-mode Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-23 22:55 ` file-name-shadow-mode Stefan Monnier
2005-03-24 0:04 ` file-name-shadow-mode David Kastrup
2005-03-25 6:42 ` file-name-shadow-mode Richard Stallman
2005-03-25 8:45 ` file-name-shadow-mode David Kastrup
2005-03-18 5:23 ` file-name-shadow-mode Richard Stallman
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