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