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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Tab Expanding Global Aliases
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:48:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31943.1391608101@thecus.kiddle.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XnsA2CB863A7CAD7davidrayninfocouk@80.91.229.13>

zzapper wrote:
> Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
> > With global aliases, it is always worth considering using bindkey -s
> > instead. This expands the string immediately without needing a tab or
> > space.
> > 
> > So for example:
> >   bindkey -s 'Im' '| more'
> > 
> I can get this to work but only if I begin the 'abbreviation' with I ???

There was a mistake in my example using a backslash. It should be, e.g.:
  bindkey -s '\\m' "(#qu$EUID)"

You also have to be fairly fast if you've set KEYTIMEOUT low.

Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-05 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-04 18:10 zzapper
2014-02-04 19:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-02-04 20:43   ` zzapper
2014-02-04 23:52 ` Oliver Kiddle
2014-02-05 13:11   ` zzapper
2014-02-05 13:48     ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2014-02-05 14:50       ` zzapper
2014-02-05 15:04         ` Peter Stephenson

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