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Re: XEMACS and $HOME


On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Achim Schaefer on 9/6/2005 7:50 AM:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem with my $HOME setting.
> > Starting xemacs I get the following message:
> >
> > $ xemacs
> > Syntax error: "Bad format environment-variable substitution",
> > "//SV018182/luxcasch$"
>
> My only guess is that xemacs is having problems with the $ in your share
> name, so you may have to stick with a Windows drive mount if that helps
> solve the issue.

I would say this is a bug in Xemacs (it shouldn't be trying to
indiscriminately expand variables in $HOME, or should at least use a more
robust RE to match variable names, e.g., /\$./).

If this is a Cygwin version of Xemacs, you may also be able to use a
Cygwin mount to alleviate the problem:

mount -u '//SV018182/luxcasch$' /home/luxcasch

HTH,
	Igor
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