From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Paul Lew <paullew@cisco.com>
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 13:06:11 -0700
To: "Stephen Henry" <stephenry@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: RE: zsh alias question
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>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Henry <stephenry@gmail.com> writes:

    Stephen> Okay, This is a pretty simple problem, but after looking
    Stephen> over the documentation, I cannot figure out what is
    Stephen> wrong. If I type

    Stephen> alias emacs='emacs -nw'

    Stephen> at the command line, I would expect 'emacs -nw' to
    Stephen> replace whenever I type 'emacs'. This does does not
    Stephen> happen, and instead emacs opens in a windows as usual.

    Stephen> What gives?

I have the same alias and had no problem.  Try 'which emacs' to see
what is mapped.