Re: yasnippet to expand abbreviation in dired/fileopen command?

[Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>]

David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> writes:

> Hi there,
> any help would be appreciated:
>
> I want to open a file on the remote machine. I've setup tramp to use
> abbrev to expand an abbreviation to full path, e.g.:
>
> xhs -> //ssh:xxx@xxxx#1222:/mnt/mp3/
>
> As I'm using already yasnippet for something else, using abbrev for this
> seems to be just a duplication of what yasnippet does in more generic
> way. 
>
> However, as yasnippet is using set of directories to identify major mode
> and select appropriate snippet 'set', I'm not sure into what directory I
> should put my snippets so they get expanded only when I have to specify
> directory or file....
>
>
> any comments?
>
> thanks
> d.
>

I've never thought about this, but in general I think
1. this duplication is not the end of the world
2. bookmark (or bookmark+) are a better way to solve this problem.

What I do is normally just connect to a machine, open dired or the
desired file and C-x r m to store the bookmark..

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