From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: miniaturising the file name displayed. Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:34:37 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <86n02lxj82.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088602515 6606 80.91.224.253 (30 Jun 2004 13:35:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 30 15:35:02 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 1BffEs-0002Qk-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:35:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BffGa-0003R9-Jw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BffGP-0003Qw-PS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BffGO-0003QZ-4H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BffGO-0003QW-2I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:36:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BffEZ-0005WN-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BffEX-0003xA-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:34:41 +0200 Original-Received: from 139.4.37.213 ([139.4.37.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:34:41 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by 139.4.37.213 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:34:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.4.37.213 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:srHcprV6ewxdRm+zxpkEqS7I/TY= 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:19369 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19369 Abi writes: > 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? Replacing the home dir with ~ should be done automatically. Emacs looks at the environment variable $HOME to do this. Perhaps you might like ido.el which displays only the last couple of components of the directory name. Kai