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Re: expand $vars and ~users
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Ehud Karni |
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Re: expand $vars and ~users |
Date: |
Sat, 2 Aug 2003 22:15:49 +0300 |
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:10:13 +0800, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
>
> In *shell*, environment variable are expanded with ease, $bla<TAB>,
> but why not when you are entering on the minibuffer for C-x C-f?
In your .emacs Do:
(require 'complete) ;;Better completions for Emacs
(partial-completion-mode 1) ;;start it now
The 1st line may be redundant because `partial-completion-mode' is
auto loaded. Now $foo<tab> will expand to your environment variable.
> For ~b<TAB> to expand to ~bob/ one needs the real shell, as the above
> don't do it.
That is a real problem.
Would you like to contribute code that does it ?
Ehud.
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