Re: [PATCH v2] mergetools: add winmerge as a builtin tool

> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:24 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> wrote:
> 
> >> $ echo "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)"
> >> C:\Program Files (x86)(X86)
> >>
> >> So it seems to resolve only the $PROGRAMFILES part and appending the
> >> literal "(X86)". Not sure how to tell Bash that "(X86)" is part of the
> >> variable name.
> >
> > It would be ${PROGRAMFILES(X86)}, but POSIX says that variable names can
> > only contain alphanumeric characters and underscores, and Bash adheres
> > when it complains about it in Johannes' example above.  Not sure whether
> > there is a clever escaping that could make it work, I couldn't find any.
> 
> Right, I did already try that curly-braces-style of quoting, and
> MSYS1/2 both give:
> 
> $ echo ${PROGRAMFILES(X86)}
> sh.exe": ${PROGRAMFILES(X86)}: bad substitution
> 
> I couldn't find any other style of quoting that works, either.