New Fish-Shell Aliases are ignored

Question

as explained in https://stackoverflow.com/a/2763014/2891692 i created for days many alias in my config file ~/.config/fish/config.fish and it works.

every new alias i add today don't work.

Example of not working alias:

alias bla  = "cd ~/Desktop" 
alias bla2  = "ls -a"

but the alias i added before today. for example: alias gitStatus="git status"

full ~/.config/fish/config.fish here:

function fish_greeting
     echo 'try nr 5'
end
alias bla2  = "ls -a" 
alias gitStatus="git status"

each try i update the welcome message. this works

How could i fix this?

if used alias bla = "cd ~/Desktop"

bla
Command 'bla' not found, did you mean:
  command 'bls' from deb bacula-sd (9.4.2-2ubuntu5)
...

if type part of the alias is first red. but its not a error (confused me first)

Kubuntu 20.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
Kernel Version: 5.13.0-41-generic
OS Type: 64-bit

You have spaces around the = , does it work if you write the alias with no spaces, like this: alias bla2="ls -a"? — terdon, Commented May 16, 2022 at 8:51
Then please edit your question to include that and the exact error you get when you try. — terdon, Commented May 16, 2022 at 11:35
While it doesn't contribute to your problem, I really suggest you read my answer to that same question on why you should not define aliases in your config.fish. That's the "bash/zsh" way of doing things -- Fish has better methods available. — NotTheDr01ds, Commented May 16, 2022 at 12:16

Stéphane Chazelas · Accepted Answer · 2022-05-16 09:42:51Z

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alias in fish takes arguments in one of two forms:

In your case, because you have spaces around the =, this passes it as three arguments to alias, which it won't understand.

In fact it should be printing an error:

alias: expected <= 2 arguments; got 3

So: Do

alias bla "cd ~/Desktop" 
alias bla2 "ls -a"

or

alias bla="cd ~/Desktop" 
alias bla2="ls -a"

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answered May 16, 2022 at 9:10

faho

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found that it works also without the = with many spaces alias bla "cd ~/Desktop" yes now this error makes since to me alias: expected <= 2 arguments; got 3
– SL5net
Commented May 16, 2022 at 12:22
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Yes, that is how argument passing in shells typically works. Spaces outside of quotes separate words, but how many there are doesn't matter.
– faho
Commented May 16, 2022 at 12:25

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