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bug#5808: 23.1; substitute-in-file-name $NOSUCH vs ${NOSUCH}
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Kevin Ryde |
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bug#5808: 23.1; substitute-in-file-name $NOSUCH vs ${NOSUCH} |
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:02:20 +1100 |
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
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> I made the change in Emacs-22 so that most uses of $ in file names can
> work without needing the quoting by double-dollars.
Sounds likely.
> Admittedly,
> the resulting inconsistency is not great, so I guess that the
> discrepancy is a misfeature/bug,
Unless it's thought of as ${FOO} is certainly an expansion, whereas $FOO
is instead maybe an expansion and maybe a literal $, such as on VMS, is
it?
If the docstring described the way it worked that'd be enough.
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