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  2. From: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri/Stainless Steel Rat)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.emacs
  4. Subject: Re: "Feature" in emacs
  5. Message-ID: <RATINOX.92Jul22213523@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Jul 92 01:35:23 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul22.064913.16215@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>
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  11. In-reply-to: mattw@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au's message of 22 Jul 92 06:49:13 GMT
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  16. >>>>> On 22 Jul 92 06:49:13 GMT, mattw@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Matthew
  17. >>>>> Watson) said:
  18.  
  19. MW> I just accidentally put an environment variable in a load-file argument
  20. MW> like (load-file "${ENV}/foo.el") Then I looked back later and thought,
  21. MW> "Why is that working?"  Seems that emacs passes the pathname to a shell
  22. MW> or something for evaluation.  Interesting.
  23.  
  24. Interesting, indeed, because it worked for me, too. I'd say it's probably
  25. like the parsing of "~/"; sometimes it works, sometimes it won't. For
  26. portability's sake, (getenv ("VAR")) is much safer.
  27.  
  28. --Rat
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