Re: Alias call in function fails...

[Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>]

> On Jun 23, 2020, at 6:43 PM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 4:30 PM Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Ahh… ok.  Thank you.  I remember reading that now (before your changes)
>> but didn’t really ingest it.
> 
> The more classic example is something excessively abbreviated such as
> 
> % alias -g L='|less'
> % find ~ -name \*.gif L

For me, I think I would more likely do something like:

% alias -g opts=“-a -b -c -d”
% foo opts path/to/file

But, given my relative inexperience with zsh, I not think about alias -g and
would likely do:

% opts=“-a -b -c -d”
% foo $opts path/to/file

or use alias -g to save a really long ugly path.  etc.