RE: [h-e-w] FW: Niggling file problems

[Hollingdale, Dave]

Thanks - seems like a much easier solution than my original one.

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> As for my final problem with using abbreviations for filepaths, I suppose
> I will have to rename the find-file function and attempt some lisp to
pass
> a converted filepath to it. What I am hoping to do is find a way of
> including say a # character into the find-file function so that it
invoked
> an abbreviation list lookup and substituted the filepath e.g. my1#
> filename could become
> /address@hidden:/users/someone/very/long/path/name/filename
>

Why not use environment varibles for this. You can have something
like the following in your .emacs file :-

(setenv "my1", "a long file path")

then when find-file asks for a file you can use :-

$my1/filename

HTH

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