Re: How to set alias to drectory in .emacs?

[F. Chen]

Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden> wrote in message news:<address@hidden>...
> F. Chen wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to know how to set an alias for a direcory in emacs, e.g.
> > alias wd = "/Home/self/private/Work/Papers/InProgress/", so everytime
> > I want to open a file in that directory but from a different location,
> > I can do something along the line of C-x C-f type wd, then file name.
> 
> M-: (setenv "wd" "/Home/self/private/Work/Papers/InProgress")
> C-x C-f $wd TAB

Thanks! this works.

fc