Re: How to suppress environment variable expansion by find-file?
Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh skip(a)pobox.com:
I have a file with a leading dollar sign in its name. When I try to
visit
it in XEmacs I get an error with this message "substituting nonexistent
environment variable ...". I've tried doubling up the dollar sign, escaping
it with a backslash, quoting it with apostrophes and giving a prefix
argument. I didn't see any variable which would obviously suppress the
expansion. Nothing seems to work. Is there any relief for this problem?
Evaluating something like this in *scratch* should work:
(flet ((substitute-in-file-name (filename)
filename))
(find-file "/home/aidan/$substitute-in-file"))
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