Re: setenv and find-file

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 21:07:51 +0000
> 
> In shell:
>     $ echo ${VARIABLE}
>     /a/very/long/path
>     $ emacs &
> Inside emacs:
>     C-x C-f ${VARIABLE}/to/work                <== Finds 
> "/a/very/long/path/to/work".
>     (setenv "VARIABLE" "/shorter/path")
>         => "/shorter/path"
>     M-! echo ${VARIABLE}
>     "/shorter/path"
>     M-x shell
> In shell inside emacs:
>     $ echo ${VARIABLE}
>     "/shorter/path"
> Back in emacs:
>     C-x C-f ${VARIABLE}/to/Grandmothers/house
> This finds the file "/a/very/long/path/to/Grandmothers/house", where I sort 
> of expect it to find "/shorter/path/to/Grandmothers/house".

I cannot reproduce this.  What version of Emacs is this, and on what
OS?