From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: miniaturising the file name displayed. Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:46:52 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40E45C1C.4070103@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088707738 4615 80.91.224.253 (1 Jul 2004 18:48:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:48:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 01 20:48:46 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bg6c2-0003tI-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 20:48:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bg6do-0002z5-N5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:50:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de fUrL9Sdgeda8J4S4wHpNMQHZPcoBDP56rWoLmMArmRyKRKMaQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124082 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19412 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19412 Abi wrote: > In emasc, when I type C-x C-f, the file name completion displays the > entire path of the directory. Instead I'd like to customize it so that > it shows only relative to my home directory. how do i do this in > emacs? ,----[ C-h v abbreviated-home-dir RET ] | abbreviated-home-dir's value is | "^/home/kevinr\\(/\\|$\\)" | | Documentation: | The user's homedir abbreviated according to `directory-abbrev-alist'. | | Defined in `files'. `---- So when I'm visiting a file under /home/kevinr, C-x C-f displays this in the minibuffer: Find file: ~/foo/bar/etc/ Is that what you want? -- Kevin Rodgers