louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) (01/08/87)
Hello. I'm using GNU EMACS, version 18.31 under Ultrix 1.2 and 4.3 BSD. I've got a group of files in a directory, some of which have dollar signs '$' imbedded in them. Now, I know that this is a bad idea for filenames on a UNIX system, but these files are actually from our Sperry 1100 system. The problem that I have is that EMACS attempts to do environment variable substitution when I try to a find-file. The only way that I've found to edit these files is to use dir-ed, and select the file. This is cumbersome, at best. I've tried to quote the $ by preceeding it with a backslash, enclosing the name in quotes... It is especially annoying since EMACS will do filename completion and show me the file, yet complains when it tries to find-file it. Any ideas? set-noglob-mode or something :=) Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming