In a message dated: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:04:26 PST "Karl J. Runge" said:
>Typing extra characters interferes with one's concentration >for example, "ll" vs. "ls -lF | more" Hmm, you're right. That did mess up my concentration. Ahh, here's the problem: sed 's/more/less/' ;) >I find it hard to buy any argument that says it is a bad idea for people >to make abbreviations for things they type 10's or 100's of times a day. I'm not against making things easier, just making things easier at the cost of really screwing yourself up even just once *because* you tried to make things easier. (I hope you can follow that, I think I just confused myself :) >Try not to think about the generally bad practice of using an alias for >*refining* a common command like rm -> rm -i via an alias. Something >like rmi -> rm -i is better. >I do not recommend redefining things via aliases. cd and ls are my two >personal transgressions. (I alias cd to set the window manager title >to pwd in xterm) Exactly! That's the point I'm trying to make. >Well, don't do something that will mess you up :-) Very good advice! I think I'll remember that one :) >> I look at this as 5 new commands I now need to remember rather than 1 >> command and a couple different options. > >I look at it as 47 characters less to type, and I type these commands >10's or 100's of times a day! I'm so used to typing exactly what I need, I don't really notice the extra characters. There are a couple I do have, like lsd='ls -l | grep ^d', though, technically it's a ksh function, not an alias, though it essentially amounts to the same thing. (anyone want to expound upon the differences between an alias and a function, I'm tired of typing ;) ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
