From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
To: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Alias call in function fails...
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:10:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2982509.CQOukoFCf9@nbkamil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D8EC8611-5960-4FFC-9D91-367BEAF77859@easesoftware.com>
On Tuesday, June 23, 2020 2:46:50 PM CEST Perry Smith wrote:
> My amateur 2 cents … I gave up on aliases with bash and never tried them
> with zsh.
>
> Aliases are just weird oddities that have lots of special cases. Since
> functions now exist (aliases came first in the global history of shells), I
> don’t see any advantages to aliases and they have many problems.
>
> I don’t know of anything an alias can do that a function can’t?
Yet such things exist. You can find many use cases for them in the User’s
Guide to the Z-Shell, as for example:
% alias %=' '
% alias mkdir='nocorrect mkdir'
% alias zfget='noglob zfget'
Kamil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-23 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-22 12:49 Frank Gallacher
2020-06-22 23:23 ` Mikael Magnusson
2020-06-23 8:37 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2020-06-23 9:14 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-06-23 9:55 ` Mikael Magnusson
2020-06-23 11:28 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2020-06-23 12:04 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-23 12:46 ` Perry Smith
2020-06-23 13:10 ` Kamil Dudka [this message]
2020-06-23 16:03 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-23 21:14 ` Perry Smith
2020-06-23 22:54 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-23 23:29 ` Perry Smith
2020-06-23 23:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-24 0:47 ` Perry Smith
2020-06-24 9:28 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-24 12:55 ` Perry Smith
2020-06-23 23:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-24 10:10 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-24 10:47 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-24 2:58 ` Grant Taylor
2020-06-29 16:24 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-06-29 16:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-30 4:02 ` Bart Schaefer
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