Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mimsy!cvl!umd5!louie From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: file names with '$' in them Message-ID: <1409@umd5> Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 13:37:13 EST Article-I.D.: umd5.1409 Posted: Thu Jan 8 13:37:13 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Jan-87 23:53:11 EST Sender: nobody@umd5 Reply-To: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 16 Hello. I'm using GNU EMACS, version 18.31 under Ultrix 1.2 and 4.3 BSD. I've got a group of files in a directory, some of which have dollar signs '$' imbedded in them. Now, I know that this is a bad idea for filenames on a UNIX system, but these files are actually from our Sperry 1100 system. The problem that I have is that EMACS attempts to do environment variable substitution when I try to a find-file. The only way that I've found to edit these files is to use dir-ed, and select the file. This is cumbersome, at best. I've tried to quote the $ by preceeding it with a backslash, enclosing the name in quotes... It is especially annoying since EMACS will do filename completion and show me the file, yet complains when it tries to find-file it. Any ideas? set-noglob-mode or something :=) Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming