On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> One thing we maybe could be doing is a more fancy aliasing feature, along
>> the lines of git aliases, where you can do whatever you want. Then you
>> could do a dim apply-curl alias which resolves to curl $arg | dim apply.
>> Not sure how to implement that though ...
>
> We *already* have a fancy aliasing feature. You can add arbitrary
> subcommands of your own, and you can override existing subcommands. Try
> this in your ~/.dimrc:
>
> dim_my_fancy_list_aliases()
> {
> echo "Hello world!"
> dim_list_aliases
> }
>
> dim_alias_list_aliases=my-fancy-list-aliases
>
> This first part will give you a new "dim my-fancy-list-aliases"
> subcommand, and the second part will use it for "dim list-aliases".
>
> Go wild. ;)
Maybe we just need to document this better? Rodrigo, you're up for a
patch to dim.rst, with the above example in a new ALIASES sections?
I'd put it right above ENVIRONMENT.
-Daniel
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