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bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash
From: |
Basil L. Contovounesios |
Subject: |
bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Apr 2021 11:58:51 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
>>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 47790@debbugs.gnu.org
>>> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:12:29 +0100
>>>
>>> IME when someone says "set FOO to $HOME/.foo" without any further
>>> qualification they are implicitly referring to the expansion of
>>> $HOME.
>>
>> That's what I knew, but Thierry seems to say otherwise.
>
> Well, it is common to set PATH like this:
>
> PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
>
> you find this in ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc on many distros.
Any variables enclosed in double quotes "..." are expanded when this
expression is evaluated by the shell.
You can confirm this by running 'echo "$PATH"'.
> I didn't find documentaion about this though.
See one of the following:
- 'man 1 dash', headings 'Double Quotes' and 'Parameter Expansion'.
- 'man 1 bash', headings 'QUOTING' and 'Parameter Expansion'.
- (info "(bash) Double Quotes")
https://gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Double-Quotes.html
> Anyway the problem is if one do this with XDG_DATA_HOME and trash files
> from different directories, a copy of his home directory will be done in
> each of those directories under literally "$HOME/user".
But this only happens when you set XDG_DATA_HOME to a string that
includes shell variables, right? If so...
> If you consider this is fine and normal you can close this bug report.
...then I don't think that was ever implied as being supported, and I
don't see the need to support it, but that's just one impression.
Thanks,
--
Basil
- bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash, Thierry Volpiatto, 2021/04/15
- bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/15
- bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash, Thierry Volpiatto, 2021/04/15
- bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/04/15
- bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/15
- bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash, Thierry Volpiatto, 2021/04/24
- bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash,
Basil L. Contovounesios <=
- bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash, Thierry Volpiatto, 2021/04/24
- bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/04/24