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On 12/01/17 11:04 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>
> And in 20+ years I don't think anyone else has asked about it, so ...
>
At one point I thought I wanted that too but after realizing that it 
really was impossible

via internal methods I ended up just setting all my aliases within one 
file named 'aliases'

and that was the end of the issue.  Some times I can bend the shell to 
my will but other

times I have to bend my will to the shell and often the latter ends up 
being the better.