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In-Reply-To: Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu>
        "Re: Rationalized? aliases" (Nov  8,  6:17pm)
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On Nov 8,  6:17pm, Richard Coleman wrote:
} Subject: Re: Rationalized? aliases
}
} > Now however, the rationalized alias output makes this not work:
} > 
} > % echo $ZSH_VERSION
} > 2.6-beta11
} > alias e="gnuclient -q"
} > % [[ $HOST != $HOMESYSTEM ]] && alias e="$(whence e) -h $HOMESYSTEM"
} > % type e
} > e is an alias for \''gnuclient -q'\'' -h spacely'
} > 
} > This is not what I desire ('gnuclient -q' is not a valid command) - what
} >  I want is to append "-h spacely" to the alias.  How can I do this?
} 
} Rather than changing the code of zsh for this, maybe you should
} just use
} 
} alias e="$(whence e | tr -d \') -h"
} 
} Doing things like this is what makes command substitution so
} cool.

What's wrong with:

e="gnuclient -q"
[[ $HOST != $HOMESYSTEM ]] && alias e="$=e -h $HOMESYSTEM" || alias e="$=e"

??  Why get "whence" involved at all?

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