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Re: ed not even $HOME expands


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: ed not even $HOME expands
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:34:06 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paul Jarc <address@hidden> writes:
>> Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> $ ed
>>> r  ~/.signature_news_en
>>> ~/.signature_news_en : No such file or directory
>>
>> ed ~/.signature_news_en
>
> OK, if that's the way to deal with lack of expansion by this user
> level tool [ed], then to be consistent would you want to remove
> expansion from the other editors too?

Depends on the editor.  Whence this idea that all editors should share
either this feature, or its absence?


paul



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