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Expanding a global alias

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From: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Expanding a global alias
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:47:09 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi

I use a global alias as follows
>alias -g NF='*(.om[1])' # newest file

so I can write say

>cp NF /tmp

Is there any way of making the above (or similar) tab expandable

ie
>cp NF<tab> 

expands to

>cp thanks.php 


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