From: sl@9front.org
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] long paths in acme tags
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:11:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1463105dfff5c71c4eee1ab63ed0d4d@pi.att> (raw)
>> 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.
>
> this was done in wily in the mid 90s, complete with an algorithm
> to find the shortest representation.
What was the result? In which distribution is it available? How is
it used?
sl
next reply other threads:[~2014-06-11 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-11 20:11 sl [this message]
2014-06-11 20:21 ` erik quanstrom
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2014-06-11 20:31 sl
2014-06-11 19:52 Bakul Shah
2014-06-11 20:02 ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-11 20:33 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-06-11 20:37 ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-11 21:23 ` Bakul Shah
2014-06-11 21:27 ` Robert Raschke
2014-06-11 21:32 ` Bakul Shah
2014-06-11 21:56 ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-11 22:23 ` Nicolas Bercher
2014-06-12 17:44 ` Bakul Shah
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