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Re: Is there a way to make global aliases more available?

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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Is there a way to make global aliases more available?
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:18:03 -0800
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On 2023-01-18 09:16, Peter Stephenson wrote:


No, aliases are by design very limited things that get replaced on input
before any parsing is done.

Which is a feature, not a bug. Sometimes you want things to behavestupidly. One of my own favorite programs is a mouse cursor hopper --good when you have multiple screens and multiple terminals, I hit thehotkey and the cursor jumps to a set open terminal. And it's absolutelystupid, it does not do any 'helpful' things like worry about what'svisible on the monitor it just jumps. Nothing to think about or worryabout. Dumb is good.

References:
- Is there a way to make global aliases more available?
  - From: Sebastian Gniazdowski
- Re: Is there a way to make global aliases more available?
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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