On Sunday 31 August 2003 17:36, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 06:40:07PM +0200, 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? > > > > - why does it try to find a termination at '/' ? shell variables > > terminate at a lot of characters, like for example simple spaces ' '. > > > > - the documentation is quite unclear IMHO. > > > > > > Given the extremely limited amount of use of this function right now I > > would vote against inclusion in kdelibs. > > my thinking. > i'd go for something flexible built on KMacroExpander. i'll scribble > something up tomorrow. I did not know about that class :) That might be an even better solution. -- Regards, Dawit A. "Preach what you practice, practice what you preach"