Re: find-file-at-point expanding environment variables?

[David Rogoff]

On 2010-04-14 02:31:29 -0700, Andreas Politz said:

> David Rogoff <david@therogoffs.com> writes:
>
> > On 2010-04-13 15:58:31 -0700, David Rogoff said:
> >
> > > I could use some help.  I use ffap (bound to c-x c-f) all the
> > > time. However, I edit many files in which there are references to
> > > filenames that use shell environment variables as part of the path.
> > > For example -  /home/${USER}/.cshrc .  Is there a way for ffap to
> > > expand/substitute this?  It would make my life a lot easier.
> >
> > I did some experimenting and see that ffap will expand variables
> > ... except if they are enclosed in curly braces. This isn't too bad a
> > limitation, but it would be better if I didn't have to edit the files
> > and remove the curly braces.
> >
> > David
>
> (add-to-list 'ffap-string-at-point-mode-alist
>              '(file "--:\\\\$+<>@-Z_[:alpha:]~*?{}" "<@" "@>;.,!:"))

Great -it appears to work perfectly!

Thanks,

David