<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Oswald Buddenhagen</b> <<a href="mailto:ossi@kde.org">ossi@kde.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:50:30AM -0400, Allen Winter wrote:<br>> 1) support reading environment variables with or without the [$e]<br>> 2) support writing environment variables only with the [$e]<br>><br>most definitely not. variables were never just expanded.
<br>we are talking exclusively about {read,write}PathEntry(), for which<br>$HOME/ at the beginning is sort of a magic token. i don't think it makes<br>much sense to change that behavior in any way.<br>and btw, this means that if somebody uses a $e path entry, he has to
<br>write it $$HOME/... in the ini file.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Sorry I just checked my mail, I want to make sure exactly what we want here so I can fix it tommorrow. It looks like we want to convert $HOME/ anytime readPathEntry is used even if there is no [$e], is this right?
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