I settled on allowing for multiple aliases to be configured per remote. You can do:

:remote config alias x g

which will allow a variable "g" on the server to be referred to as "x" in a script. which means you can do:

:> x.V()

To do multiple aliases, you can just offer additional key/value pairs in the same config. Also include a "show" and "reset" options to the config command.

GitHub user spmallette opened a pull request:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop/pull/137

TINKERPOP3-914 Gremlin Console :remote to Gremlin Server supports alias

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP3-914

Added a "alias" option to :remote config that lets the user supply key/value pairs representing the aliases. Included "show" and "reset" options as well. Updated docs which generate nicely.

Unit tests were added as well as integration tests so build/test should be:

```text
mvn clean install
mvn clean install -DskipIntegrationTests=false -pl gremlin-console
```

Test manually after starting gremlin server with:

```text
gremlin> :remote connect tinkerpop.server conf/remote.yaml
==>Connected - localhost/127.0.0.1:8182
gremlin> :> TinkerFactory.generateModern(graph)
==>null
gremlin> :> graph
==>tinkergraph[vertices:6 edges:6]
gremlin> :> g.V()
==>v[1]
==>v[2]
==>v[3]
==>v[4]
==>v[5]
==>v[6]
gremlin> :remote config alias x g
==>x=g
gremlin> :> x.V()
==>v[1]
==>v[2]
==>v[3]
==>v[4]
==>v[5]
==>v[6]
gremlin> :remote config alias show
==>x=g
gremlin> :remote config alias reset
==>Aliases cleared
gremlin> :remote config alias show
gremlin>
```

VOTE: +1

You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:

$ git pull https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop TINKERPOP3-914

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop/pull/137.patch

To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:

This closes #137

commit 2c7823e8abc9dc3214c33296b58182a9bf961882
Author: Stephen Mallette <spmva@genoprime.com>
Date: 2015-11-05T16:52:55Z

TINKERPOP3-914 Gremlin Console :remote to Gremlin Server supports alias

Added a "alias" option to :remote config that lets the user supply key/value pairs representing the aliases. Included "show" and "reset" options as well. Updated docs which generate nicely.

Github user PommeVerte commented on the pull request:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop/pull/137#issuecomment-155021818

Code looks clean, the documentation reflects all the changes. Look all good for me.

Tests all pass as well.

VOTE: +1

Github user dkuppitz commented on the pull request:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop/pull/137#issuecomment-155027875

Yep, looks good to me, too.

VOTE: +1, can be merged

Github user asfgit closed the pull request at:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop/pull/137