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Re: zsh alias question
- X-seq: zsh-workers 22421
- From: dom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dominic Mitchell)
- To: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: zsh alias question
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:04:38 +0100
- Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:46:23PM +0000, zzapper wrote:
> Paul Lew <paullew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:17460.9011.468218.643705@cns-
> build4.cisco.com:
>
> >>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Henry <stephenry@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > Stephen> Okay, This is a pretty simple problem, but after looking
> > Stephen> over the documentation, I cannot figure out what is
> > Stephen> wrong. If I type
> >
> > Stephen> alias emacs='emacs -nw'
> >
> > I have the same alias and had no problem. Try 'which emacs' to see
> > what is mapped.
> >
>
> Is there a generally agreed convention for ensuring that one is using the
> "native" tool rather than a same-named function alias etc?
>
> eg
> alias emacs='/bin/emacs -nw'
> or
> alias emacs='\emacs -nw'
I think that this will always work:
alias emacs='command emacs -nw'
-Dom
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