GNU bug report logs - #31765
26.1; Can't define alias for git in eshell

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 03:00:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, notabug, patch

Merged with 27954

Found in versions 25.2, 26.1

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 31765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 31765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31765: 26.1; Can't define alias for git in eshell
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 09:11:50 -0400

unarchive 27954
forcemerge 27954 31765
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Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com> writes:

> By trial & error I came to the conclusion that the "juxtaposition"
> case is not valid anymore. The example in the documentation:
>
>      > For example, ll is a common alias for ls -l, and would be defined
>      > with the command invocation ‘alias ll ls -l’; with this defined,
>      > running ‘ll foo’ in Eshell will actually run ‘ls -l foo’.
>
> plainly fails, it doesn't list foo but the current directory, foo is
> simply ignored.

The manual on the web now seems to be updated.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eshell/Aliases.html
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 6 days ago.

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