Whenever they are available, I use symlinks for "shortening" paths for
Acme. This is so far the only good use I've found for them ;-)

Robby
 On Jun 11, 2014 8:54 PM, "Bakul Shah" <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:

> If you are editing multiple file within the same directory
> with a very long path, the long dir paths is what takes up
> most of the tag. One idea (borrowed from zsh) is to assign a
> long path to a variable and then just show the variable
> instead. Thus for example, given long paths like these:
>
>     /a/very/very/very/very/very/very/very/very/very/long/path/to/a/file1
>     /a/very/very/very/very/very/very/very/very/very/long/path/to/a/file2
>
> If one can define a variable in acme
>     foo=/a/very/very/very/very/very/very/very/very/very/long/path/to/a
>
> & if the acme tags show
>     $foo/file1
>     $foo/file2
> it would be much nicer.
>
> Has anyone considered doing this or is there a better idea?  I
> suppose on plan9 one can use bind for this but on p9p things
> get considerably clunkier (9p, fuse...) when a variable can do
> the job more simply.
>
>