bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Is this a valid setting of an environment variable?
>
> Probably not in emacs with setenv, but in a .profile or .bash_profile,
> maybe,

In shell RC files, double quotes would expand any contained variables.

> at least according to
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html

That spec doesn't say anything about variable expansion in different
contexts.  IME when someone says "set FOO to $HOME/.foo" without any
further qualification they are implicitly referring to the expansion of
$HOME.

FWIW,

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Basil