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To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Multi-word aliases?
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On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:32:08 +0100
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think in the long run you'll run into more trouble if you expect the
> behaviour of commands that do something to be different than it is,
> than if you type a command that doesn't exist which then makes you
> realize you have to type out the full command. But in this particular
> case the resulting difference isn't very life-threatening :).

Indeed, the more life-threatening case is the old "everybody knows rm is
aliased to 'rm -i' so I can just rm any old files and it will be safe
and... oh."

pws