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In message <199511082317.SAA29367@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu>, Richard Coleman w
rote:
>
>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.

Yes, but then I have to know to do the tr substition.
I want a general solution that works for commands and aliases
and is a little bit cleaner than piping the output through 'tr'
(IMHO).

--vin