Creating short time aliases

Creating short time aliases

[Jens Kubieziel]

Hi,

within bash I can use some pseudo-aliases:
$ a really long command name # myalias
$ Ctrl+R myalias
The last command expands to 'a really long command name'. When I try
this in zsh; i get an error "bad pattern: #". What would be a good
zsh'ish way to get a similar result?

Thanks for your recommendations

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Re: Creating short time aliases

[Frank Terbeck]

Jens Kubieziel <maillist@kubieziel.de>:
> within bash I can use some pseudo-aliases:
> $ a really long command name # myalias
> $ Ctrl+R myalias
> The last command expands to 'a really long command name'. When I try
> this in zsh; i get an error "bad pattern: #". What would be a good
> zsh'ish way to get a similar result?
> 
> Thanks for your recommendations

[snip]
% zsh -f
% echo this is one hell of a long command line. # myalias
this is one hell of a long command line. # myalias
% setopt extendedglob
% echo this is one hell of a long command line. # myalias
zsh: bad pattern: #
% setopt interactivecomments
% echo this is one hell of a long command line. # myalias
this is one hell of a long command line.
[snap]

Regards, Frank

Re: Creating short time aliases

[Wayne Davison]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:30:21PM +0200, Jens Kubieziel wrote:
> $ a really long command name # myalias

In addition to Frank's suggestion to turn on the interactivecomments
option in zsh, you could instead choose to use a different comment idiom
(which works in both shells all the time):

$ a really long command name ;: myalias

It's a little harder to type, though, so you may just prefer to stick
with # .

..wayne..

Re: Creating short time aliases

[zzapper]

Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in 
news:20060903223624.GB25165@blorf.net:

pseudo-aliases:-

Sorry what's this all about?

Real example please

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Re: Creating short time aliases

[Bart Schaefer]

On Sep 4,  3:23pm, zzapper wrote:
}
} Sorry what's this all about?

As I understand it, he wants to be able to stick a tag on the end of
a command when he types it, so that he can later use that tag in a
history search to quickly find the same command again.