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what can be global aliases used for?

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From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: what can be global aliases used for?
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 15:54:21 +0100
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I'm trying to get the suspected capabilities out of global aliases. Currently I'm using them for:

- macro-like labels for exporting patterns like EMPTYSTR being [[:space:][:INVALID:]]# roughly, to a single place,

- macro-like SNIP_EMULATE_OPTIONS_ZERO that invokes emulate, setopt and 0=...

I wonder what else can global aliases do?

Follow-Ups:
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