From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with ESMTP id WAA18880 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 22:04:52 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA02994; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 05:45:05 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 05:45:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <6764.9601051035@pygmy.swan.ac.uk> To: Snow Cat , zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: zsh 2.6beta13 aliases quark In-Reply-To: "snowcat@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU"'s message of "Sun, 24 Dec 95 12:00:09 PST." <199512242000.MAA16343@ariel.disney.org> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 96 10:35:05 +0000 From: P.Stephenson@swansea.ac.uk X-Mts: smtp Resent-Message-ID: <"lk5Bn1.0.fk.m4Gxm"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/708 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu snowcat@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU wrote: > After processing the following alias file, some of 1-letter aliases become > global. That is, "ls e" prints: emacs: no such file or directory. But "echo e > " > just prints e. Note that both "ls" and "e" are aliased > Could you look into it? > ... > alias ls="ls -aFC $LS_OPTIONS" > alias e=emacs Sorry about the late reply... Check to see if LS_OPTIONS has a space at the end. This would be copied to the end of the ls alias, which would trigger alias expansion on the next word, giving the effect you observe. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +49 33762 77366 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Fax: +49 33762 77330 Deutches Electronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen DESY-IfH, 15735 Zeuthen, Germany.