On Plan 9 use bind to create yourself a nice hierarchy. Like 'bind -a
/Users/jimr /me' or similar.

Not sure how easy that is under *nix with p9p, haven't tried that yet. And
your /Users makes me think you're on Mac.

Robby



On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:04 PM, James A. Robinson <
jimr@highwire.stanford.edu> wrote:

> Do you folks have any solutions to shortening the length
> of labels in acme?  Back when I used Wily it had a nice
> feature to use environment variables if it found a match,
> e.g., one could set h=/Users/jimr and wily would show
> $h instead of /Users/jimr in the tag.  Anyone know of
> similar techniques in Acme?
>
> Jim
>
>