KShell::envExpand

[Dawit A.]

On Sunday 31 August 2003 12:40, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Sunday 31 August 2003 09:41, Dawit A. wrote:
> > Any objections to me adding the attached utility function to expand
> > environment variables to KShell ?
>
> can you explain more what it is supposed to do?
>
> - why does it only check for an embedded shell variable at the first
> position in the string?

That is lack of hind sight and something that can be easily addressed. I was 
simply attepmting to factor out redundant implementations or attempt at 
implementations in the short uri filter (kdebase/kcontrol/ebrowsing/plugins/
shorturi/kshorturifilter.cpp) and the url completion object (kdelibs/kio/kio/
kurlcompletion.cpp).  I am sure there are other places where own 
implementation is provided. It also augments the KShell::tildeExpansion. 
After all why have one and not the other ?

> - why does it try to find a termination at '/' ? shell variables terminate
> at a lot of characters, like for example simple spaces ' '.

That is a valid complaint. I only looked at the most common usage in our 
code , i.e. path expansion. Both kshorturifilter.cpp and kurlcompletion.cpp 
use it for this purpose. I am sure there are other places where variable 
expansion is needed and an own solution is created.

> - the documentation is quite unclear IMHO.

That can always be fixed.

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Regards,
Dawit A.
"Preach what you practice, practice what you preach"