turns out Anthony Heading's solution works great (thanks!): alias
echo2='echo ${(%):-%x:%I}'

any downside compared to Daniel Shahaf's solution i haven't seen yet?


On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:06 AM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>
> >     case "$whence" in
> >     (* is an alias for *)
> >
> > Some edge cases possibly not caught.
>
> Change that to (* is * alias for *) ...
>