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Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$"
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$" |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Jul 2003 18:53:05 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:
> What if somebody has an environment variable FOO expanding to bar and
> another file named $FOO? Several operating systems, including GNU and
> Unix, allow people to essentially use any file names of their
> choosing, no matter how perverse. Programs have to be able to handle
> that, even though that might make life complicated.
IMHO, the best approach is to have substitute-in-file-name return
"$$" for dollar signs in file names and to have all file primitives
grok this notation.
However, it suffers from being backward-incompatible.
Maybe the primitives could grok single dollar signs, too, then the
incompatibility would be restricted to file names with two adjacent
dollar signs. Let's hope these are not too common.
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- substitute-in-file-name and "$", Michael Albinus, 2003/07/05
- Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$", Miles Bader, 2003/07/05
- Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$", Kim F. Storm, 2003/07/06
- Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$", Michael Albinus, 2003/07/06
- Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$", Stefan Monnier, 2003/07/06
- Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$", Stefan Monnier, 2003/07/06
- Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$", Michael Albinus, 2003/07/07
- Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$", Stefan Monnier, 2003/07/07
- Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$", Michael Albinus, 2003/07/07
- Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$", Richard Stallman, 2003/07/09