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Re: find-file-at-point expanding environment variables?
From: |
Andreas Politz |
Subject: |
Re: find-file-at-point expanding environment variables? |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:44:32 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) |
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:]~*?{}" "<@" "@>;.,!:"))
Try this.
-ap