Fark doesn't recognize ZSH aliases

[wvbe]

A colleague noticed that fark does not use the alias defined in .zshrc.

To reproduce:

• Use ZSH or oh-my-zsh and edit the .zshrc file to uncomment the line that says # alias ohmyzsh="mate ~/.oh-my-zsh"
• Open a terminal and execute ohmyzsh. Either the mate application starts, or the terminal tells you that mate is not recognized, but both mean that the alias works.
• Go to a folder with some subfolders, and execute fark -$ ohmyzsh

Expected:

• The same result that youve seen in the 2nd reproduction step, for every folder

Observed:

• fark errors out on destructuring input from undefined
• ... Caused by a promise rejection now being handled appropriately
• The promise is rejected due to spawn ohmyzsh ENOENT, for every subfolder.

As another observation, on my machine it does look like the ZSH shell is being used;

echo $SHELL
fark -$ echo $SHELL

/usr/bin/zsh

[wvbe]

I've found that the .zshrc in which these aliases are defined is picked up normally. Environment variables are the same, and env variables defined in that file are the same too. I think the problem has to do with the way ZSH interprets your input before it is even passed to the executable -- possibly the ohmyzsh alias is immediately replaced with what it is aliasing, and ZSH is not doing this when passing -$ ohmyzsh to fark.

As a fix, make your ZSH aliases "global". Instead of alias foo="bar" in your .zshrc, use the -g flag;

alias -g foo="bar"

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