Re: Named directories

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mika_Sepp=E4nen?= wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If my homedir is /home/foo and I have named directory:
> 
> work=/home/foo/bar
> 
> Then if I switch to that dir (cd work), %~ expands to ~/bar. Is there
> any way to make it expand to ~work?

You need to refer to "~work" at least once; the usual trick is to put

: ~work

in your .zshrc after defining the directory.  You can also "setopt
autonamedirs" to make all such parameters eligible for this
replacement.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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