From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: why alias man to woman doesn't work? Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:50:19 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4fcd7e17-e3a4-4b35-80ca-ad71da1df9d5@pg2g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333584023 8454 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2012 00:00:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 00:00:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 05 02:00:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SFa7f-00064t-PG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:00:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFa7Y-0008Ka-QS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:00:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!pg2g2000pbb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1333583765 25031 127.0.0.1 (4 Apr 2012 23:56:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 23:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: pg2g2000pbb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.142 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:191913 comp.emacs:102380 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84327 Archived-At: got this comment. =ABYou define man as an alias for woman? woman doesn't work all the time, if it fails, how do you invoke man?=BB major lol. :D http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_alias.html why doesn't alias man to woman work? i have this alias: (defalias 'man 'woman) but it still calls man when M-x on man. Xah