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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Etc/FAQ.yo | 8 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2009-07-20 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> + + * 27178: Etc/FAQ.yo: as pointed out by Mikael, quoting + function names to stop alias expansion is always safe. + 2009-07-19 Barton E. Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org> * 27169: Src/jobs.c, Src/signals.c: 23067 went too far in opening @@ -12018,5 +12023,5 @@ ***************************************************** * This is used by the shell to define $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL -* $Revision: 1.4746 $ +* $Revision: 1.4747 $ ***************************************************** diff --git a/Etc/FAQ.yo b/Etc/FAQ.yo index 518f7aae8..a83dc252f 100644 --- a/Etc/FAQ.yo +++ b/Etc/FAQ.yo @@ -819,6 +819,14 @@ label(23) use in the body of a function, but define the function first if the alias has the same name as the function. + If you aware of the problem, you can always escape part or all of the + name of the function: + verb( + 'l'() { /bin/ls -la "$@" | more } + ) + Adding the quotes has no effect on the function definition, but + suppresses alias expansion for the function name. Hence this is + guaranteed to be safe. sect(Similarities with tcsh) |