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Re: suffix alias where the app has a space in it

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 1:18 PM TJ Luoma <luomat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Related Question: is there a way to set a default command to use for
> all suffixes, and then make additional aliases for other suffixes?

Not with alias.  You could try a command-not-found handler.

> Something like this:
>
> alias -s '*'='open'

What that means is that if you type

% foo.*

then "open foo.*" will be executed.  It does NOT mean that the alias
will be invoked when you type

% foo.bar

Aliases do not do pattern matching.
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