From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6671 invoked from network); 23 Jan 1997 07:48:24 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 23 Jan 1997 07:48:24 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA25808; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 02:38:04 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 02:18:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <970122232359.ZM7162@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 23:23:58 -0800 In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic "Re: Help on zsh grammar" (Jan 23, 7:31am) References: <970122113559.ZM3128@candle.brasslantern.com> Reply-To: schaefer@nbn.com X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: Hrvoje Niksic , zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: Help on zsh grammar MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"56oiO2.0.1G6.l2nvo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/623 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Jan 23, 7:31am, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: } Subject: Re: Help on zsh grammar } } Bart Schaefer (schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com) wrote: } > alias test 'noglob test' } } This should be: } alias test='noglob test' Er, yes. I always forget that I use: alias() { local cmd eq if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] then cmd=-L else cmd="$1" shift fi if [[ $# -gt 0 ]] then eq='=' else eq= fi builtin alias "$cmd"$eq"$@" } Also, what I said about the order of defining aliases and functions was not quite what I meant. The rule is: Define first those aliases you expect to use in the body of a function, but define the function first if the alias has the same name as the function. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.nbn.com/people/lantern