RE: zsh alias question

RE: zsh alias question

[zzapper]

Paul Lew <paullew@cisco.com> wrote in news:17460.9011.468218.643705@cns-
build4.cisco.com:

>>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Henry <stephenry@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>     Stephen> Okay, This is a pretty simple problem, but after looking
>     Stephen> over the documentation, I cannot figure out what is
>     Stephen> wrong. If I type
> 
>     Stephen> alias emacs='emacs -nw'
> 
> I have the same alias and had no problem.  Try 'which emacs' to see
> what is mapped.
> 

Is there a generally agreed convention for ensuring that one is using the 
"native" tool rather than a same-named function alias etc?

eg
alias emacs='/bin/emacs -nw'
or
alias emacs='\emacs -nw'



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Re: zsh alias question

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:46:23PM +0000, zzapper wrote:
> Paul Lew <paullew@cisco.com> wrote in news:17460.9011.468218.643705@cns-
> build4.cisco.com:
> 
> >>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Henry <stephenry@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >     Stephen> Okay, This is a pretty simple problem, but after looking
> >     Stephen> over the documentation, I cannot figure out what is
> >     Stephen> wrong. If I type
> > 
> >     Stephen> alias emacs='emacs -nw'
> > 
> > I have the same alias and had no problem.  Try 'which emacs' to see
> > what is mapped.
> > 
> 
> Is there a generally agreed convention for ensuring that one is using the 
> "native" tool rather than a same-named function alias etc?
> 
> eg
> alias emacs='/bin/emacs -nw'
> or
> alias emacs='\emacs -nw'

I think that this will always work:

  alias emacs='command emacs -nw'

-Dom

RE: zsh alias question

[Paul Lew]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Henry <stephenry@gmail.com> writes:

    Stephen> Okay, This is a pretty simple problem, but after looking
    Stephen> over the documentation, I cannot figure out what is
    Stephen> wrong. If I type

    Stephen> alias emacs='emacs -nw'

    Stephen> at the command line, I would expect 'emacs -nw' to
    Stephen> replace whenever I type 'emacs'. This does does not
    Stephen> happen, and instead emacs opens in a windows as usual.

    Stephen> What gives?

I have the same alias and had no problem.  Try 'which emacs' to see
what is mapped.

zsh alias question

[Stephen Henry]

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Okay,

This is a pretty simple problem, but after looking over the documentation, I
cannot figure out what is wrong. If I type

alias emacs='emacs -nw'

at the command line, I would expect 'emacs -nw' to replace whenever I type
'emacs'. This does does not happen, and instead emacs opens in a windows as
usual.

What gives?

Stephen

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