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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Alias call in function fails...
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:03:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Y_ktdKoSWkTDOabTUyU0pSh5FZo_XYS2WzckuZgKWSrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2982509.CQOukoFCf9@nbkamil>

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 6:11 AM Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, June 23, 2020 2:46:50 PM CEST Perry Smith wrote:
> >
> > I don’t know of anything an alias can do that a function can’t?
>
> % alias %=' '
> % alias mkdir='nocorrect mkdir'
> % alias zfget='noglob zfget'

Yes, that's one of two things alias can do that functions cannot:
Give instructions to the parser.

The other thing is make replacements in contexts other than the
"command  position" (global aliases).

Both of those are intended as interactive features, though, because
there are other ways to do them in scripts, where saving keystrokes
and the user's memory are not important.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-23 16:04 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
2020-06-23 16:03               ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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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