On 10/26/15 10:54 PM, isabella parakiss wrote:
> man bash claims that unsetting elements from BASH_ALIASES causes them to
> be removed from the alias list. This doesn't work and from what I can see
> in variables.c there's nothing that's called when an element in a dynamic
> variable is unset.
>
> Is there any plan to support this?
You're right -- it doesn't work right now. It's a documentation error. I
don't know whether it can be made to work by the time bash-4.4 comes out
due to the transformations required between the data held in associative
array hash tables and the data held in the aliases hash table.
Chet
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