-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Jan 12, 2017, at 1:05 AM, kamaraju kusumanchi > <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:53 PM, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > wrote: >> On Wed 11 Jan 2017 at 22:38:48 (-0500), kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> >>> Just unalias the alias corresponding to edit (the one you set up in >>> ~/.zshrc) before launching reportbug. After that set it back. IIUC >>> there is no need to launch a bash subshell to do this. You can do >>> everything while you are in zsh. >>> >>> So the sequence of commands would be >>> >>> % unalias edit >>> % reportbug & >>> % alias edit='emacsclient -c -s /tmp/emacs1000/server' >> >> If you're going to do it that way, you've really got to >> interrogate the old value and restore it afterwards, rather >> than having edit defined in two places. Otherwise, how do >> you keep them in sync. >> >> Most people wouldn't run reportbug often enough to worry >> about a subshell, would they? > > There are always multiple ways to solve a problem often with different > advantages/disadvantages. I do not have a problem with subshell per > se. My point is that the previously proposed solution requires OP to > start a different shell (i.e. zsh users starting bash). What is to > assume that there is no such alias defined in ~/.bashrc?
Good catch — since this is a single-user setup, I know it’s not in this case. But the method you have is more elegant. > > Little bit of a side note: I work on systems where my home directory > is mounted across multiple machines. On different machines I use > different shells. To keep my aliases synced across all these machines, > I place all my aliases in a separate file and source that file in > ~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc etc., > > raju > -- > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog >
