From 7f58463dd33cfd75af894ba30fcbda576c112e46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Shahaf Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:40:23 +0000 Subject: users/24959/0001: Extend documentation of global aliases. --- Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo') diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo b/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo index a4e0c1121..7eabd75ce 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo @@ -597,6 +597,15 @@ word, e.g. tt(\foo). Any form of quoting works, although there is nothing to prevent an alias being defined for the quoted form such as tt(\foo) as well. +In particular, note that quoting must be used when using tt(unalias) to remove +global aliases: + +example(% alias -g foo=bar +% unalias foo +unalias: no such hash table element: bar +% unalias \foo +% ) + When tt(POSIX_ALIASES) is set, only plain unquoted strings are eligible for aliasing. The tt(alias) builtin does not reject ineligible aliases, but they are not expanded. -- cgit 1.4.1