How to create an alias that launches zathura with tabbed

Question

So tabbed outputs it's xid when you run it. How could I put this into an alias dynamically?

I'm looking to do something like:

alias zathura = tabbed -c zathura -e ${tabbed Xid goes here} & disown

Answer 1

You need to use command substitution in your alias:

alias zathura='zathura -e $( tabbed -c ) & disown'

Note that the alias's replacement text needs to be 'quoted in single quotes' to prevent tabbed -c from being expanded immediately when the alias is defined.

Answer 2

Alternatively, you can make use of tabbed's -r command:

alias zathura='tabbed -c -r 2 zathura -e id'

Relevant documentation from the man page for tabbed:

-r narg
               will replace the narg th argument in command with the window id, rather than appending it to the end.