Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$"

[Miles Bader]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 01:16:44AM +0200, Michael Albinus wrote:
> At least the examples in the Elisp manual give the feeling that
> substitute-in-file-name could be called without special attention. The
> trap with the "$" char isn't obvious.

Consider that the environment-variable's _value_ could contain a `$', so it
seems actually fairly obvious that you should only call
substitute-in-file-name once...

-Miles
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