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Question: is there a way to convince ffap to perform variable substitution on environment variables before attempting to resolve the file path?

I often have lines in shell scripts that read:

variable="${ENV_VAR}/path/to/file"

When I use ffap on the above, it is unaware of what ${ENV_VAR} means. Assume ENV_VAR is properly defined via

export ENV_VAR="/path/to/dir"

in one of the shell's init-files and it can be found in the output of env. Is there a way we can trick ffap to do the variable substitution?

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You can redefine ffap-file-finder. This is normally set to find-file, which doesn't do env variable expansion. So define a function like find-file that does do env variable expansion:

(defun find-file-env (fname)
   (find-file (substitute-in-file-name fname)))

and assign it to ffap-file-finder:

(setq ffap-file-finder #'find-file-env)
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  • Thanks for the help. I've done the above, and it works "partially". When having a string like "${INCL_PATH}/path/to/foo", it will now recognize ${INCL_PATH} and it will recognize /path/to/foo (depending on the location of the cursor), but it will not recognize both combined. It does work when removing the braces. Commented Oct 16, 2020 at 9:38
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    This might be related to this bug Commented Oct 16, 2020 at 9:45
  • Looks like it is, yes. Commented Oct 16, 2020 at 12:40

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