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Subject: `$' in file names
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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
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