From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7714 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2018 15:26:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Seq: 23182 Received: (qmail 9613 invoked by uid 1010); 27 Feb 2018 15:26:33 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mta04.eastlink.ca by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(24.224.136.10):SA:0(-2.6/5.0):. Processed in 1.307954 secs); 27 Feb 2018 15:26:33 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: rayandrews@eastlink.ca X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=dfKuI0fe c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=RnRVsdTsRxS/hkU0yKjOWA==:117 a=RnRVsdTsRxS/hkU0yKjOWA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=BFRO_QGRfV1pPLmOISsA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-EL-IP-NOAUTH: 24.207.101.9 Subject: Re: alias hygiene To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <1679a1e0-f716-e501-c4c2-f7e485f9701f@eastlink.ca> <1518827410.2159479.1273706656.1F5B436D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <37bb7b6b-ad70-6d03-f979-0e0d3b0be4d3@eastlink.ca> <1518875676.3562728.1274073304.5ED24DC8@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20f1c297-7c7d-109f-b9ee-b53823aa476c@eastlink.ca> <1518881445.3606980.1274127384.7D7A2004@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180227134858.GB10630@cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> From: Ray Andrews Message-id: Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 07:26:14 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 In-reply-to: <20180227134858.GB10630@cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> Content-language: en-CA On 27/02/18 05:48 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > And I even have an alias generator that can redefine existing aliases: ... > The goal is to alias commands to use a pager when possible > (the pager-wrapper function uses a pager only when the output > is sent to a terminal). > It's a cool way of reshaping a command to fit some real time circumstance, this gives one a bunch of interesting options that can only be available to interpreted code.   It's the sort of thing one can't find in the scrolls.