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* Looking for CDPATH functionality in emacs.
@ 2011-01-03 18:55 Steven W. Orr
  2011-01-03 19:08 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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From: Steven W. Orr @ 2011-01-03 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
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This is a bit long, so all I can do is apologise.

I have a number of directories that I use frequently. From the bash side of
things I set the CDPATH variable in bash to :d1:d2:d3 and then I can just go
to places inside d[123] and it just works. I also have the bash variable
cdable_vars set to allow me to say

d4=/path/to/d4

followed by

cd d4

and it all works peachy keen.

What I'd like to do in emacs is to be able to visit a file in some directory
that I favor (somehow) so that it will automagically find it without having to
slog through the whole path to get there.

I did find file-cache-find-directory which looks like it's half of what I
want. But that has two problems:

1. I added this to my .emacs

(file-cache-add-directory "/path/to/special/dir")

I saw no special behavior when I ran this, either from my .emacs or interactively.

2. I normally visit files using my own my-visit-file function:

(defun my-visit-file (arg)
  "Visit a file using completion. If there is only one window with
nothing in it, then do not split the current window. "
  (interactive "Fmy-visit-file :")
  (if (and (one-window-p) (zerop (buffer-size)))
      (find-file arg t)
      (find-file-other-window arg t)))

I use this function so that if I visit a file from an empty buffer, I won't
end up with two windows.

The problem is that if I had run file-cache-add-directory, the find-file
function starts in the directory of where the current buffer is. I'd like to
make it so that if I supplied a C-u to my-visit-file then it would *not* start
from that current directory. Instead, it should give me a prompt as if I had
done a C-a C-k to get rid of the directory.

So, if you made it this far, here's the recap:

1. Does anything already exist that smells like what I want?
2. Can I fix my-visit-file so that a C-u will prevent the default prompt from
being the current directory of the file I'm starting from? (But I do still
want filename completion.)
3. Does anyone have a better idea?

MTIA :-)

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2011-01-03 18:55 Looking for CDPATH functionality in emacs Steven W. Orr
2011-01-03 19:08 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-01-03 19:20 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-03 20:16 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-01-04  4:42 ` Le Wang
2011-01-04  9:43   ` Le Wang
2011-01-04  5:55 ` Kevin Rodgers
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2011-01-06  9:40 ` Stefan Kamphausen

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