Create aliases in emacs?

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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: `C-f <some link>` 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 swear i've seen this somewhere, but months of googling have turned up nothing. What i've got right now is something like: ``` (defun go-awesome () "Find my way to my work home" (interactive) (find-file "c:/cygwin/home/awesome")) ``` 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. The biggest problem with it though, in my opinion is that it doesn't fit in my workflow. When i…

Accepted Answer

I'm not really clear on what you're asking for. I store my commonly-used files in registers in my .emacs:

```
(set-register ?c '(file . "c:/data/common.txt"))
(set-register ?f '(file . "c:/data/frequent.txt"))
```

Then I can jump to a file with `jump-to-register` (`C-x r j`):

For example, "`C-x r j c`" takes me to `c:/data/common.txt` (loading it if necessary).

Is that what you're looking for?

Create aliases in emacs?

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