Re: How to suppress environment variable expansion by find-file?

Aidan> Evaluating something like this in *scratch* should work: Aidan> (flet ((substitute-in-file-name (filename) Aidan> filename)) Aidan> (find-file "/home/aidan/$substitute-in-file")) A bit cumbersome, but I suspect you're correct. With a little experimentation, I determined there appears to be a behavior change between 21.4 and 21.5 in this regard. If I type these keystrokes in

21.5.28 C-x C-f $ $ x RET I get the "Substituting non-existent environment variable x" error. If I type the same keystrokes in 21.4.21 it will open the file named "$x". If, before hitting RET, I hit TAB, the first time, it removes one of the dollar signs. The second time it emits the error message. (This is in both 21.4 and 21.5.) I'm not well versed enough in XEmacs C source to know what might have changed. It seems from a casual glance that the only changes were mechanical (IByte to BufByte, qxstrlen to strlen, etc). It seems to me that there should be some way to override some or all of the function's behavior without having to completely redefine it. (It does both ~ and variable expansion, right?) It's unfortunate that substitute-in-file-name is written in C instead of Lisp. It would be easier to control its behavior with variables if it was written in Lisp (or at least mere mortals could more easily control it). Skip _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta