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Re: Environmental variable expansion - problems for Shares.
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Environmental variable expansion - problems for Shares. |
Date: |
08 Oct 2001 13:10:41 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.106 |
>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Kemp <skx@tardis.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> Under these operating systems shared directories are "hidden"
> by suffixing their names with a "$" symbol.
> When attempting to use tab completion on these directory names
> Emacs attempts to expand an environmental variable, and invariably
> fails.
I find the current behavior indeed annoying.
It would be better to do env-substitution for existing variables
and to leave the $ stuff as is if it doesn't correspond to an env-var.
Stefan