From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Bruce Stephens <b.stephens@isode.com>,
ZSH users mailing list <zsh-users@math.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: Command alias in non-command position
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:36:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <980826103628.ZM21060@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vbk93v8zwm.fsf@snake.isode.com>
On Aug 26, 5:35pm, Bruce Stephens wrote:
} Subject: Re: Command alias in non-command position
}
} > sudo vi ...
} >
} > The /usr/bin/vi is started instead of elvis.
} >
} > Is there any easy way to use my lovely aliases in this case?
}
} Could I define sudo somehow, to say that its first argument ought to
} be expanded as if it were in the command position?
Yes:
alias sudo='sudo '
The trailing space in the sudo alias tells zsh to also apply alias
expansion again to the next word that follows it.
} I already think I ought to be able to change how spell-correction
} works, to say that some words just don't correspond to files (like the
} first argument to tar), and possibly to say that some words ought to
} correspond to non-existent files.
Programmable spelling correction would be the next logical step after
programmable completion, I suppose.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-26 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-26 15:42 Andrej Borsenkow
1998-08-26 16:35 ` Bruce Stephens
1998-08-26 17:01 ` Zefram
1998-08-26 17:13 ` Bruce Stephens
1998-08-26 17:26 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1998-08-26 17:49 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-08-26 17:36 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1998-08-27 1:51 ` 'man' completion Gossamer
1998-08-27 9:14 ` Bruce Stephens
1998-08-27 17:09 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-08-28 16:42 ` Sven Guckes
1998-08-28 17:58 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-08-30 17:03 ` maillist archive lacking search engine Sven Guckes
1998-09-01 12:51 ` Command alias in non-command position Wayne Davison
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