Xavier Maillard wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> wrote:
 ||Xavier Maillard wrote in
 || <[email protected]>:
 |||Another day, other questions.
 |||
 |||I have defined an alias (in fact it was you, Stefen ;)) to send an \
 |||email to mailx mailing list.
 |||
 |||I just did: m mailx
 |||
 |||I typed my mail and sent it.
 |||
 |||I got a message informing me that the mail could not reach the ML (it \
 |||just expanded to [email protected]).
 |||
 |||How am I supposed to use aliases ?
 ||
 ||I have an alias
 ||
 ||  alias mailx [email protected]
 |
 |Mine is using \alias syntax. Wht does it change ?

Also a command modifier, this prevents `commandalias' expansion:

  ? ?m
  m -> mail -> '\local mail'
  ?\\m
  m (mail): (m) Compose mail; recipients may be given as arguments

(In the latter case it must be escaped via shell-quoting, may it
be \\ or '\' or what, because the command de-facto is `help', we
are only asking it to show us the expansion.)

So, it should not matter regarding actual `alias' expansion, it
only prevents `commandalias' from kickin' in.

 |-- Xavier
 --End of <[email protected]>

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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