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From: thomas@prosys.ai.mit.edu (Thomas Thyberg)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Defining alias
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Date: 14 Jul 89 11:07:19 GMT
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Bash version 1.02
SUN 3/60 SUNOS3.5
gcc version 1.35

Hi.

There is something I really would like to be able to do in bash and that is
to write my alias definitions in my .bashrc something like this:

1:
alias \
  'pd=		pushd' \
  'ud=		popd' \
  'back=	cd $OLDPWD' \
  etc...
or
2:
alias \
  'pd		=pushd' \
  'ud		=popd' \
  'back		=cd $OLDPWD' \
  etc...

to make it more readable (I think it gets more readably anyway).
The problem is this;
The second version doesn't work and in the first the leading white space
in the value part of a definition ends up in the alias definition.
eg.  bash$ alias pd
     alias pd="      pushd"

If you allow 1 than I think that could be fixed by stripping the leading 
spaces of 'value' before calling add_alias in alias_builtin.

But I would prefer 2, which probably needs more work.

If this isn't the way of defining ones aliases, please tell me how!

BTW,
Thanks for doing bash! The best shell I have ever used.
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