* alias -s with background
@ 2013-06-26 7:50 Ivan Zanolla
2013-06-26 8:49 ` Peter Stephenson
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From: Ivan Zanolla @ 2013-06-26 7:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I want start a program with alias -s. But if I wrote
alias -s pdf = evince &
don't work. Why?
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Ivan Zanolla
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* Re: alias -s with background
2013-06-26 7:50 alias -s with background Ivan Zanolla
@ 2013-06-26 8:49 ` Peter Stephenson
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From: Peter Stephenson @ 2013-06-26 8:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
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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