From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:11:43 -0400
From: sl@9front.org
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] long paths in acme tags
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>> 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