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Article #1160`$' in file names
From: kgk
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1988 22:08
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1988 22:08
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In GNU Emacs 18.52.3 of Fri Oct 21 1988 on barney (berkeley-unix) Emacs won't let me interactively find-file any file whose name contains a `$', because of environment variable substitution. It *is* possible to (find-file "foo$") or something like that. May be many people will consider this a nitpicky and unimportant point, but nevertheless, I thought I'd report it, since find-file of foo\$ won't work either. (Also, I changed my own backup file pathnames recently to use $ instead of ~ to escape system scavengers). Keiji Kanazawa (not subscribed to this list)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.brown.edu!kgk From: kgk@cs.brown.edu Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: `$' in file names Message-ID: <8811092208.AA08866@bimini.cs.brown.edu> Date: 9 Nov 88 22:08:36 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 14