Expand aliases within commands to find alias tips
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Hi - thanks for the awesome plugin! I have an enhancement suggestion for you.
I use the oh-my-zsh git plugin, and I've already trained myself to always use g
instead of git
- which unfortunately means that alias-tips doesn't work for any git command that I type. (I assume because it doesn't expand g
-> git
before finding an alias matching the command.)
Here's an example:
→ repo:(master) g status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean
→ repo:(master) git status
Alias tip: gst
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean
The relevant aliases from the git plugin:
alias g='git'
alias gst='git status'
Sounds tricky, but it would be really great if alias-tips expanded aliases inside commands.
Whoops - I just bothered to read the documentation and found ZSH_PLUGINS_ALIAS_TIPS_EXPAND
. Works perfectly! Keep up the great work :)
@wxactly Thanks for the kind words. As you figured out, the solution to this specific problem is using ZSH_PLUGINS_ALIAS_TIPS_EXPAND
. We introduced it as a flag as it was considered experimental. But by now I think it has matured enough and is the expected behaviour therefore I will make it the default with the option to fallback.
Also make sure do check by again tomorrow, after I merged #16 which will allow multiple replacement runs and do allow better use cases with git aliases
:
$ which g
g: aliased to git
$ git-alias
st = status -sb
$ git status -sb
Alias tip: g st