creating alias-link to file

creating alias-link to file

[Johannes Quint]

is it possible to open a file with find-file-at-point
using an alias?
i.e. i want to open the file ~/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h.txt" but i want to 
open it by
going to the name "xy".
thanks for hints.
j.q.

Re: creating alias-link to file

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 04.09.2006 um 11:52 schrieb Johannes Quint:

> is it possible to open a file with find-file-at-point
> using an alias?

Yes. Open two dired buffers, one with target directory (includes the  
file the symbolic link will point to), one with the source directory  
(will contain the sym-link). Create the link with S. (Using H you  
will create a hard link, which will make it impossible to decide  
which is source and which is target, which needs that both are on the  
same partition/volume/slice/file system.)

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Re: creating alias-link to file

[Hadron Quark]

Johannes Quint <johannes.quint@web.de> writes:

> is it possible to open a file with find-file-at-point
> using an alias?
> i.e. i want to open the file ~/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h.txt" but i want to open
> it by
> going to the name "xy".
> thanks for hints.
> j.q.
>

Dont know about aliases, but bookmarks might be useful to you.

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Re: creating alias-link to file

[Peter Lee]

>>>> Johannes Quint writes:

    > is it possible to open a file with find-file-at-point
    > using an alias?
    > i.e. i want to open the file ~/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h.txt" but i want to open it by
    > going to the name "xy".

You could use abbrev's.

(define-abbrev global-abbrev-table "xy" "~/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h.txt")

then:

C-x C-f xy C-x a e RET

or

C-x C-f xy C-x ' RET

I usually use these for common dirs I visit with long paths.

You could probably make it some local-abbrev-table ... specific to the
minibuffer as well... I've never tried that as I don't have that many.


Another option is to use environment vars from find-file.

(setenv "xy" "~/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h.txt")

C-x C-f $xy RET