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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh MailingList <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: suffix alias where the app has a space in it
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 14:30:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aShn_9VP18WtpuYSA70zAKR23v+K-JNQqj-4JGpOgUeQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADjGqHvJNjer085qWM_P_bBNU0QYxPsE33gQVKxQVoTLBJ3EZg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 1:18 PM TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Related Question: is there a way to set a default command to use for
> all suffixes, and then make additional aliases for other suffixes?

Not with alias.  You could try a command-not-found handler.

> Something like this:
>
> alias -s '*'='open'

What that means is that if you type

% foo.*

then "open foo.*" will be executed.  It does NOT mean that the alias
will be invoked when you type

% foo.bar

Aliases do not do pattern matching.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-08 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20190808111626epcas1p28034457322a4f06a363aed6763a5b859@epcas1p2.samsung.com>
2019-08-08 11:14 ` TJ Luoma
2019-08-08 11:47   ` Peter Stephenson
2019-08-08 12:09     ` TJ Luoma
2019-08-08 17:40       ` TJ Luoma
2019-08-08 21:30         ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2019-08-08 11:50   ` Stephane Chazelas

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