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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Message-Id: <160111234429.ZM6760@torch.brasslantern.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:44:29 -0800
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Comments: In reply to Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
        "Re: Aliasing assignment-ish words (aliases[x=y]=z)" (Jan 10,  7:50pm)
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Subject: Re: Aliasing assignment-ish words (aliases[x=y]=z)
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On Jan 10,  7:50pm, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
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} I thought we might want to have 'alias -L' handle LHSes with '=' in them
} specially: omit them from the output with a warning, or maybe fail hard

Yeah, that probably wouldn't be too difficult (I'd go with the warning).

} For what it's worth, the real-world use-case behind this thread is
} a z-sy-h user whose zshrc has an alias "aliases[=]='noglob ='" and
} a function literally named '='.  (That alias works as expected, as
} does "aliases[=ls]='...'" even if EQUALS is set.)

Hm, it also ought to be possible to special case a word starting with
'=' (since it's not possible to alias the empty string to anything).

I find this interesting:

    torch% alias '==foo'
    zsh: bad assignment

"Bad assignment"?