From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: alias -s with background
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:49:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130626094922.1e98ea2d@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALfoNRwGYNc98+-7bv2GrCDvXC0v39hEook_K=Lc1GZ9Nr3bKg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:50:20 +0200
Ivan Zanolla <ivan.zanolla@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want start a program with alias -s. But if I wrote
>
> alias -s pdf = evince &
>
> don't work. Why?
That's put the alias command into the background; also, you can't have
spaces around the "=" or they are treated as different aliases. "alias
-s", like other variants of alias, is limited to putting a new command
at the start of the line. You need to do it something like this:
evince_bg() { evince "$@" & }
alias -s pdf=evince_bg
(See also zsh-mime-setup, documented in the zshcontrib manual, if you
already have MIME information for this in mailcap and mime.types files.)
pws
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2013-06-26 7:50 Ivan Zanolla
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