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
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.