Re: file names containing '$'

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From: Joe Wells
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 1990 01:58

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In article <9007262346.AA01983@efbhp1.draper.com> mal%efbhp1.draper.com@RELAY.CS.NET writes:

   It's not emacs, its Unix. The basic answer is avoid using $ in file
   names.  the $ character is the variable identifier for Unix shells.

Wrong in this case.  It's Emacs, alright.  (Look in the code if you don't
believe me.)

   You can always preface the $ with a backslash (/) but this gets tedious
   FAST.

In GNU Emacs, you should preface the $ with a $.  If you want to you can
also bypass the $ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE expansion by just calling the
find-file function directly:

    ESC ESC (find-file "filename") RET

For more info, read the documentation on substitute-in-file-name.

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@uswest.com>

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