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PATH can contain non-expanded variables

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>, 2062 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Emacs Bug Tracker <submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:01:05 +0100

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: emacs,w32
> Version: 23.0.60
>
> It is possible for PATH (or other path-like variables, like EMACSPATH
> and EMACSLOADPATH) to contain unexpanded variables:
>
> ELISP> exec-path
> ("c:/emacs/bin" "%MYTEST%" "C:/WINDOWS/system32" "C:/WINDOWS"
> "C:/WINDOWS/system32/Wbem" "c:/emacs/trunk/bin")
>
> for example, if the user has set
> "HKLM\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\emacs.exe\Path" as a
> REG_EXPAND_SZ.
>
> These variables should be expanded, but currently
> emacs.c:decode_env_path does not. The following patch fixes it.
>
> Comments?

Nice. Thanks.

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