[PATCH] support user-defined command aliases

[John D. Mitchell]

On 9/8/06, TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> A few notes on this patch:
> 1. command defaults (on the actual command being aliased) will be
>    applied after expansion of aliases.

Cool.

> 2. you can use the hg command as alias name (like in csh/bash shell)
>    No sure this is good idea though.

Yeah, I think that's a bit dangerous -- too easy to make things confusing.

> 3. No partial match on alias names when called.

Inconsistency but that's something that could be added if it's
important to people.

Personally, I don't like the partial matches.  I'd much prefer to have
configurable aliases and only allow exact matches.

Rock on,
John