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POCreate aliases in emacs?
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copied!<p>I have a copy of emacs that I use on a couple of different (windows) computers from a thumb drive, and I am wondering if it is possible to create something that is sort of the equivalent of a bash alias or symlink within emacs? Something that I could use within find-file is the main thing that i'm looking for, so for example: <code>C-f <some link></code> would take me somewhere. Currently I have to add a new defun every time i get to a new computer, which is just kind of a pain and I would <em>swear</em> i've seen this somewhere, but months of googling have turned up nothing.</p> <p>What i've got right now is something like:</p> <pre><code>(defun go-awesome () "Find my way to my work home" (interactive) (find-file "c:/cygwin/home/awesome")) </code></pre> <p>But that feels increadibly overdone and hacky for just visiting a fairly hacky for just visiting a file that i visit semi-regularly. And it requires a lot of effort to set up a new file.</p> <p>The biggest problem with it though, in my opinion is that it doesn't fit in my workflow. When i want to visit a file i always do <code>C-x C-f</code>, and if i realize that "hey i'm at work" i then have to <code>C-g M-x go-awesome</code>. Perhaps it would be more clear if i said that i wanted to be able to do something that is the equivalent of an <code>ln -s /some/awesome/dir</code> but internal to emacs, instead of built into the OS, so that <code>C-x C-f ~/awesome/some/sub/dir</code> would work on windows or anywhere else.</p>

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