From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Case Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing working Directory useing abbrev ?? -- [SOLVED] Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:31:51 -0400 Message-ID: <1177911111.3152.161.camel@CASE> References: <1177866044.3152.139.camel@CASE> <87fy6io7wj.fsf@patagonia.sebmags.homelinux.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177911108 25815 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2007 05:31:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:31:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Sebastian P. Luque" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 30 07:31:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HiOU9-0000xr-L3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:31:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiOaI-0003Ys-Bw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiOa5-0003Ym-Cq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiOa4-0003Ya-Fr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:37:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiOa4-0003YX-9L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:37:48 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.36.81]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HiOTu-000229-69 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:31:26 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 20774 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2007 05:31:25 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=EjQopK3U982ZRiELcqLpZXXQyxGwuPYW7QPLyi3M6jJp59OTjuM9jkq9DwS8B7RIyr16WXVHNqDzId0hN9k3h0/hYAFHCzFlQdHOJP2iH/1XlwfQgaSvBNyDGp1nWFJnYbadkaShnOmDxrGmyrk15UaaCXrjk4S31TuOKfJ/9h0= ; Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.4?) (billlinux@rogers.com@74.104.51.86 with plain) by smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2007 05:31:25 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: VlweXb8VM1mS9HQBEh2.X9sPXH9EMs8_y5oiUX.y7biCa9zjQiKwcVt.S7dqRd_AOA-- In-Reply-To: <87fy6io7wj.fsf@patagonia.sebmags.homelinux.org> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43383 Archived-At: Thanks Sebastion; I finally figured out how it works. On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 22:31 -0500, Sebastian P. Luque wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:00:44 -0400, > William Case wrote: > > [...] > > > How can I use my path abbrevs to change to a new pwd?? > > > Oh, by the way, I have googled and info-ed indeed. I am still not used > > to using all the correct search criteria, so the explanation is there > > somewhere I am sure, but I can't find it. > > I'm not familiar with such directory abbreviations, but for this > functionality I like bookmarks; 'C-x r m' for creating a new one > (e.g. dired buffers), 'C-x r b' for jumping to one. Have a look. > It's not intuitive to me but it works. I wanted to set a new pwd before visiting files or creating new ones. You know, set it up before I start working and then be free to bop around and know I will always get back to my working directory. I now I see I can do that with 'find-file' and directory-abbrev-alist + bookmarks. I still feels counter-intuitive but I'll get used to it. I believe I might be able to create environmental constants and use cd $CONSTANT, but that seems like more trouble than it is worth. Thanks for your tip -- it got me re-thinking the whole thing. -- Regards Bill