Re: OT: aliases vs functions vs executables

2019-07-11 Thread 'Grant Taylor' via vim_use
On 7/11/19 7:57 AM, aroc...@vex.net wrote: Something to bear in mind with all this aliasing, linking, and environmental trickery is the effect on subsequent maintainability. Even if you ensure that it's properly documented and generally understood, how many hours are going to be spent figuring

Re: OT: aliases vs functions vs executables

2019-07-11 Thread arocker
Something to bear in mind with all this aliasing, linking, and environmental trickery is the effect on subsequent maintainability. Even if you ensure that it's properly documented and generally understood, how many hours are going to be spent figuring out what's going on before any real problem

Re: OT: aliases vs functions vs executables

2019-07-10 Thread Timothy Rice
> As a general rule, if I want to use something outside of the interactive > shell, I use an executable. This applies equally as well to things like > running :!theCommand from within vim to running theCommand remotely via ssh > to creating desktop shortcuts that search the $PATH. According to th

OT: aliases vs functions vs executables

2019-07-10 Thread 'Grant Taylor' via vim_use
On 7/10/19 3:25 AM, Mathieu Roux wrote: I love aliases since i am a child! i am absolutely fascinated by them! i dream of them every night:-) Aliases can be quite useful. But they generally only work /in/ /the/ /shell/. If you want to use (something like) an alias /outside/ /of/ /the/ /shel