kgk@cs.brown.edu (11/10/88)
In GNU Emacs 18.52.3 of Fri Oct 21 1988 on barney (berkeley-unix) Emacs won't let me interactively find-file any file whose name contains a `$', because of environment variable substitution. It *is* possible to (find-file "foo$") or something like that. May be many people will consider this a nitpicky and unimportant point, but nevertheless, I thought I'd report it, since find-file of foo\$ won't work either. (Also, I changed my own backup file pathnames recently to use $ instead of ~ to escape system scavengers). Keiji Kanazawa (not subscribed to this list)
louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) (11/10/88)
I reported this problem about 2 years ago when I was editing files I had FTP'ed from our Unisys 1100 mainframe. It was promptly fixed; simply type two $ characters to escape it. In fact, filename completion will do this for you. I was impressed; the fix was done less than 3 days after I reported it. Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming
tvb@SUN.COM (Terry V. Bush) (11/11/88)
| In GNU Emacs 18.52.3 of Fri Oct 21 1988 on barney (berkeley-unix) | | Emacs won't let me interactively find-file any file whose name | contains a `$', because of environment variable substitution. | It *is* possible to (find-file "foo$") or something like that. | | May be many people will consider this a nitpicky and unimportant | point, but nevertheless, I thought I'd report it, since find-file of | foo\$ won't work either. (Also, I changed my own backup file | pathnames recently to use $ instead of ~ to escape system scavengers). | | Keiji Kanazawa | (not subscribed to this list) Try '^X^Ffoo$$' to get 'foo$'. Also, if you try '^X^Ffo^I' for completion that only matches 'foo$' you will get 'foo$$' which then finds the file 'foo$'. Plus, it works for imbeded '$'s i.e. '^X^Ffoo$$bar' finds the file 'foo$bar'. Peace, Terry V. Bush (The Veritable Bugeater)