On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:21:33AM +0300, Erez D wrote:
> On 5/1/06, Oded Shimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:35:27AM +0300, Erez D wrote:
> >> hi
> >>
> >> i have in csh:
> >> alias vi 'gvim \!* &'
> >>
> >> i tryed translating to bash as
> >>
> >> alias vi='gvim $* &'
> >>
> >> this works without the ampersand, bit not with it
> >
> >aliases are replacement text, not scripts. whatever you set in your alias
> >will be written as is, as if you wrote it manually. so you're basically
> >typing:
> >
> >$ vi bla
> >=>
> >$ gvim $* & bla
> >
> >> or
> >>
> >> vi() {gvim $* & ; }
> >
> >the ';' is redundant, even possibly illegal.
> >And you always want "$@", almost never $*.
> >So
> >
> >vi(){gvim "$@" &}
>
>
> $ vi(){gvim "$@" &}
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
Sorry, I'm used to zsh, Seems bash works differently:
vi(){ gvim "$@" & }
- ods15
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