On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 14:10:33 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Try prefixing the thing with the builtin `function': > > function w3m() ...
That would still leave the alias in place, though. So, both the alias and the function would be defined. The alias will win out, I believe, if you actually try to run w3m at that point. You need to unalias w3m first. That's the real answer here. Also, just as a tangent, "function" is a bash extension that came from ksh. In ksh, there are two different ways to define a function: "foo()" and "function foo". They have different semantics; one is not a synonym for the other. Combining them, as in "function foo()", is not allowed. POSIX sh only defines "foo()". "function foo()" is therefore purely a bash extension.
