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  2. From: mattw@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Matthew Watson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.emacs
  4. Subject: "Feature" in emacs
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul22.064913.16215@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>
  6. Date: 22 Jul 92 06:49:13 GMT
  7. Organization: Customised Software Solutions Centres, AOTC
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  10. I just accidentally put an environment variable in a load-file argument like
  11. (load-file "${ENV}/foo.el")
  12. Then I looked back later and thought, "Why is that working?"
  13. Seems that emacs passes the pathname to a shell or something for evaluation.
  14. Interesting.
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  19.      -  Matthew Watson -         | MHSnet: mattw@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au
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