Re: Suffix alias for README files

[John Eikenberry <jae@zhar.net>]

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Bart Schaefer wrote:

> > I can use suffix aliases to display various .txt files.
> > Can I do a similar thing for README files? So the "command"
> > 
> > 	/some/path/README
> > 
> > will really run the command 
> > 
> > 	less /some/path/README
> 
> Depending on your version of zsh, you can do this either with the
> zle-line-finish widget or by replacing the accept-line widget.
> 
> zle-line-finish() {
>     setopt localoptions extendedglob
>     if [[ -z "$PREBUFFER" && "$BUFFER" = ([^[:space:]]#/)#README ]]
>     then BUFFER="less $BUFFER"
>     fi
> }
> zle -N zle-line-finish
> 
> Or
> 
> accept-line() {
>     setopt localoptions extendedglob
>     if [[ -z "$PREBUFFER" && "$BUFFER" = ([^[:space:]]#/)#README ]]
>     then BUFFER="less $BUFFER"
>     fi
>     zle .accept-line "$@"
> }
> zle -N accept-line
 
Is there any way to get either of these to work without changing the command
that is stored in history? So the history contains '/some/path/README' and not
'less /some/path/README'?

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