Zsh: There's More To Shell Aliases Than You Might Think 

I've only used simple aliases - until now. Learned a lot. Thanks.

I switched to Fish and one thing I really enjoy is abbreviation. The expansion of abbreviations when typing them in the terminal is really useful. Not only because I do see what it does, I can also change the arguments right there before execution. To me this is a killer feature.

alias -g. i think abbrev is better. meaning, type something you've defined; then do a space or punctuation and the abbreviation will expand. benefit of immediate feedback.

I only use alias something='command', and with Luke Smith, I learned that I don't need to type "alias xyz=" again, just alias v="nvim" \ vim="nvim"

Dude sorry but that “ping” noise for the subscribe animation is kind of like nails on the chalkboard and a little loud in comparison to your levels

WOW! Good one Brodie! I learned a bunch! Thanks!

'source .zsh' you could also use 'exec yourshell'

I use the OS specific alias to run chrome on mac os when I type "chromium", so that I can keep the same scripts from linux and mac os. On mac for some reason launching chrome by typing chrome doesn't work, so I just make the alias execute the launch script thing inside the chrome folder in mac os' applications folder.

global aliases are a neat idea, but can get weird as you mentioned. the grml zshrc has a neat 'abbreviation' implementation that acts like global aliases but can be a bit safer to use as they are expanded to their meaning explicitly/implicitly as you want.

A lot of my aliases became too complex over time so I had to convert them to functions. I don't have any OS specific aliases which are completely unique but I do use the same idea to have different versions of an alias depending of the system because windows can require some work arounds. I also have some tmux specific aliases which I detect in a similar way.

ah, you got electric quote pairing. do you have it for all the types of brackets as well?

I use normal and suffix aliases in zsh.

Also Take a look at gotbletu's dotfiles.

how portable is `$OSTYPE`, especially compared to `uname`?

Do you have any interest in cleaning up ~/ like Luke has his? I see what he has, and I see what I have (similar to what you have) but I can't see a way to get from A->B without breaking my world. If this interests you, a video would be great.

How about a keybinding follow up in zsh using tmux. I dont like typing my alias.

I only use bash so I use normal aliases and functions. I don't consider functions to be an alias I haven't thought about using global aliases. Reminds me of sub on MUDs. I rarely used them there.

You don't have to type source everytime. Alternatively, you may use . ~/.zshrc

uh alias work after after the pipe because it's technically new command, it should also work after && and ;

Awesome.

I was searching in the comments that bash nerd to tell how to do all these things in bash and tell zsh is not necessary. 😜 And of course it can be done in bash through other means.

They can also be a function tooo they don't need to be a single line... Example here mate lol github.com/TheCynicalTeam/DotFiles/blob/master/.bash_aliases

the baby beard is very distracting