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How to use aliases with auto completion in oh-my-zsh?
I'm using zsh on MacOS El Capitan. I'm wondering how auto completion has to be parameterized to resolve aliases as well.
When I used bash, my .bash_profile contained the following:
alias mdb "mongo -...
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How can I alias a history expansion in zsh?
I want this to work (it needs extendedglob and histsubstpattern):
alias ri='^(#b)E(?)^E${(l:2::0:)$((match[1]+1))}'
But it doesn't:
$ alias sss='^(#b)E(?)^E${(l:2::0:)$((match[1]+1))}' ...
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Get the expansion of an alias (in both bash and zsh)
I want to get the expansion of an alias.
For example, if I have:
alias g=hub
alias cdh='cd $HOME'
I want to have:
expand_alias g == hub
expand_alias cdh == cd $HOME
The tricky thing is that the two ...
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Alias when not first word: `G='|grep'` then `command G grep-string`
I find myself typing | grep and | less a lot, and was wondering if there was any way to be able to do something like:
alias G='| grep -E' # egrep is deprecated
alias L='| less'
So I could do ...
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Possible to make zsh up-arrow history search detect aliases?
I have git aliased to g. Sometimes I use g, and sometimes I don't.
I might run git add file1 and later g add file2.
When I want to add file1 again, I might type g add in the zsh prompt, and then ...
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Using dir var in an alias?
I have a directory variable and function as follows:
coding_dir="~/Documents/coding"
function f() { cd $1 && ls -a ; }
And I want to create an alias as follows:
alias rnd="f $coding_dir/...
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Turn off one flag of command and infinite recursion
Since it overwrites my history when used in multiple terminals, I want to turn off the functionality fc -W. Unfortunately I have a habit of typing it often.
I think it's not possible to make an alias,...
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Is it possible to define directory-sensitive aliases in zsh (or any other shell)?
I want to use different aliases (or perhaps: the same alias differently) depending on the current working directory. For example, I might want to use l as a shorthand for ls with some extra options. ...
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How can bash aliases be configured to handle spaces in directory names? [duplicate]
The alias below works well in zsh when spaces in directory names are \ escaped, but bash doesn't handle them properly. What changes would be required to make them work with bash properly.
dum() {
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Zsh suffix alias alternative in bash
In zsh I can open any file with a special suffix or extension like .log or .txt with a program with typing its file name only
$ alias -s txt=nano
$ word.txt
That open the file word.txt with nano. ...
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Using zsh alias to quickly clone a git repository with custom folder name
I want an alias shortcut to achieve the following:
Clone a github repository with a custom folder name
Open it in my fav text editor (atom)
I currently use this inside ~/.zshrc:
alias quickstart="...
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Using zsh autocompletion for alias
I have created a few aliases for git in zsh. For example: gch = git checkout, grb = git rebase --committer-date-is-author-date and some more complex useful zsh functions for git commands. But how can ...
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Make "." and "source" default to ~/.zshrc
I would like to source my ~/.zshrc by running . with no arguments. So this:
$ .
should do this:
$ . ~/.zshrc
I would like the normal functionality of . to remain unchanged. The only difference ...
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zsh alias with arguements
I have an alias for neovim-qt thus defined:
gvim='nvim-qt --geometry 500x320 --'
This allows me to call gvim foo.py ook.py and have a QT window running neovim with two tabs, one for each file.
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Run one command after another in zsh when Ctrl-C is pressed
I have recently moved to zsh from bash (on OSX). I have an bash alias I have used to run one program then another (even if previous program exits with error) on bash. I can't work out how to ...
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