Re: execline "importas" documentation question

2018-09-16 Thread Colin Booth
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 08:35:57PM -0500, Brett Neumeier wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 5:49 PM Colin Booth wrote: > > > I think I know what is going on. I assume you're running this on the > > commandline? If so, the shell is splitting prefix${FOO}postfix into > > three words ("prefix",

Re: execline "importas" documentation question

2018-09-16 Thread Brett Neumeier
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 5:49 PM Colin Booth wrote: > I think I know what is going on. I assume you're running this on the > commandline? If so, the shell is splitting prefix${FOO}postfix into > three words ("prefix", "$FOO", "postfix"), then importas is deleting the > middle one. If you write

Re: execline "importas" documentation question

2018-09-16 Thread Colin Booth
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 04:42:10PM -0500, Brett Neumeier wrote: > Hi, > > The documentation for importas says: > > "When *envvar* is undefined, and the -D option is not given, any variable > substitution with > *variable* as the key will

execline "importas" documentation question

2018-09-16 Thread Brett Neumeier
Hi, The documentation for importas says: "When *envvar* is undefined, and the -D option is not given, any variable substitution with *variable* as the key will return no word; that is true even when the ${ *variable*} form to be