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Re: Alias help

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From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zzapper <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Alias help
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:30:15 +0000
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zzapper wrote on Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 08:10:54 +0100:
> Pity we don't have an online script tester for zsh (many for bash)

What would that do, and why need it be online?

> I prefer an Alias to a Function where possible because it's easy to tab
> expand an alias and then if required tweak it

With a function, you run fned on it, then invoke edit-command-line and
delete the function's name on the first line, so you're left with an
anonymous function ready to be run.

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