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

[David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch>]

Dear All,
thanks for fruitful responses. I think I like this one below, because it
is very similar to what I use with tramp.

thanks
d.


Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> > 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 Andrea suggested, creating a bookmark is one (good) approach.
>
> Here are two other approaches -
>
> 1. Option `directory-abbrev-alist'.
> E.g., include an entry like this in the alist:
> ("\`xhs" . "//ssh:xxx@xxxx#1222:/mnt/mp3/")
>
> Or in Customize:
>  INS DEL From: \`xhs
>            To: //ssh:xxx@xxxx#1222:/mnt/mp3/
>
> Note that the doc for `directory-abbrev-alist' shows only examples where the
> resulting directory names are shorter, but the reverse relation can be useful as
> well: expand instead of contract - which is your case here.  The point is to
> substitute one directory name for another that is more convenient in some way.
> The symlink case is only one use case.
>
> In vanilla Emacs, `C-x C-f xhs RET' will correctly expand the abbreviation if it
> is in `directory-abbrev-alist'.  However, completion (`TAB') will not expand it.
> If you use Icicles then completion will expand it, just like `RET' will.
>
> See also: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00666.html
>
>
> 2. Environment variables.  They are expanded even by vanilla Emacs during
> completion (`TAB').  So you would define a variable `xhs' and then use `$xhs
> TAB' in the minibuffer.
>
>
> If you use Emacs on more than one machine, then using a bookmark or
> `directory-abbrev-alist' is probably easier than using environment vars.  They
> keep the customization within Emacs, not at the machine/OS level.
>
> HTH - Drew