On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 10:46:06PM +0100, Markus Teich wrote: > Brandon Mulcahy wrote: > > I do wish the concept of aliasing were a bit more general. It'd be nice to > > be able to have something like it in dmenu without having to resort to > > wrapper scripts. > > What is wrong with having a binary with a general interface and some simple > shell scripts to get a specific use out of it?
Nothing at all is *wrong* with it; but here I'm not talking about a specific use case. I'm talking about behavior you want 99% of the time. To this end, aliasing is a minor convenience provided by shells. I'm not advocating a more general approach, however; that minor convenience would be nowhere near worth the headache of having to figure out whether a program is being invoked by a user or by another program in the general case.
