From: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 06:26:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current directory.
Message-ID: <1273127200.3562.10.camel@dreddbeard>
In-Reply-To: <7vpr19j4ng.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 16:43 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> What other variants might we want to be able to specify while defining and
> using aliases?  If cwd vs root is the only distinction, then !(cwd) would
> be a bit overkill, but if we used !! for this new feature, I suspect that
> it would make it much harder to switch the default in the future.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> 

What I had in mind when I mentioned !(...)  were some half-formed ideas
about shortcuts for manipulating the environment, !(nopager), for
example.

But these ideas were vague and I can't think of any off-hand which I
would use other than !(cwd). I'd say !(root:path/to/dir), but that's
obviously not necessary (any more than !(root) would be, if cwd were the
default), and honestly I'm quite happy using shell functions for that
sort of thing.

-- 
-- Will