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authorGravatar Jan Kanis <jan.code@jankanis.nl>2013-02-05 20:43:40 +0100
committerGravatar Jan Kanis <jan.code@jankanis.nl>2013-02-05 23:14:06 +0100
commite8da9999f61c7133b7387b9311068f432cbc8c47 (patch)
treee38f7c9d00cbd28b3f71bfdb421e777fa941badb /share/functions/alias.fish
parente9188519023e9ae13f0c5eb97f499ba9a4c9ca85 (diff)
optimize 'alias', fixing bug #486. Also some minor optimizations in 'type'
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/functions/alias.fish b/share/functions/alias.fish
index 4b72ecd2..b6597ee2 100644
--- a/share/functions/alias.fish
+++ b/share/functions/alias.fish
@@ -35,11 +35,18 @@ function alias --description "Legacy function for creating shellscript functions
return 1
end
- switch (type -t $name)
- case file
- set prefix command
- case builtin
- set prefix builtin
+
+ # If we are shadowing an existing (internal or external) command, set the
+ # correct prefix. If $name is different from the command in $body, we assume
+ # the user knows what he/she is doing.
+
+ switch $body
+ case $name $name\ \* $name\t\*
+ if contains $name (builtin --names)
+ set prefix builtin
+ else if which $name >/dev/null
+ set prefix command
+ end
end
eval "function $name; $prefix $body \$argv; end"