From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:04:38 +0100 To: zzapper Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk, zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: zsh alias question Message-ID: <20060418140438.GC23112@gimli.happygiraffe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) X-Seq: zsh-workers 22421 On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:46:23PM +0000, zzapper wrote: > Paul Lew wrote in news:17460.9011.468218.643705@cns- > build4.cisco.com: > > >>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Henry 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