Re: Alias named '='

[Vincent Bernat <bernat@xxxxxxxx>]

 ❦  8 octobre 2017 10:03 +0200, René Neumann <lists@xxxxxxxxx> :

> I stumbled upon the idea to define a function '=' to have an inline
> calculator in zsh [1].
>
> As multiplication is a normal operation, I also want 'noglob' behavior.
> There seems to be no way of defining this for a function (or is there?),
> so the only way would be to haven an alias
>    alias '='='noglob ='
>
> But this seems to not be possible, yielding 'bad assignment': The alias
> command seems to hard-parse until the first equal-sign -- even tricks like
>    alias $'\u3D'='noglob ='
> do not work.

I am using "c" instead of "=", but you can use "=" with:

aliases[=]='noglob ='
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