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Subject: Re: [9fans] Long tags in acme
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:57:37 +0000
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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folding'd be nice, but does anyone else get kinda mesmerised
by the sight of all those almost-identical path prefixes?

even if tags folded i reckon i'd still find that a problem.

i was wondering earlier whether a possible solution might
be to add an Alias primitive; e.g.

Alias /mnt/term/n/c/usr/rog/c/other/blah/diddoodah blah

then any pathnames prefixed by the first argument
would show up as non-rooted pathnames prefixed by the
second (relative pathnames not really being used in acme tags).

similar in a way to the environment variable thing, but
more explicit; also similar to russ's symlink trick or
doing a local bind, but means that plumbing would
still work seamlessly.

i bet it'd be really quite simple to implement too.
there's probably a good reason why it's a bad idea...