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From: lewis@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Bil Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: setq load-path bug in GNU Emacs? - (nf)
Message-ID: <993@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 26 Jan 88 17:49:31 GMT
References: <2000001@gmdka.UUCP>
Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
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In-reply-to: fuchs@gmdka's message of 24 Jan 88 17:44:00 GMT
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.36.1 of Fri Feb  6 1987 on rocky (berkeley-unix)


Harald,

There is this function:

substitute-in-file-name:
Substitute environment variables referred to in STRING.
A $ begins a request to substitute; the env variable name is
the alphanumeric characters after the $, or else is surrounded by braces.
If a ~ appears following a /, everything through that / is discarded.
On VMS, $ substitution is not done; this function does little and only
duplicates what expand-file-name does.


  which should solve your problem:
(setq load-path (cons (substitute-in-file-name "$HOME/emacs") load-path))

=> ("/user/lewis/emacs" "/usr/stanford/lib/gnuemacs/lisp")

-Bil
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