Re: EShell Alias for a 'cd' followed by 'ls'

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

The only caveat is that the aliases will go into an
official release and cannot require users to type them.

Have done some elisp functions for that.

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> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 7:39 AM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: "Dan Hitt" <dan.hitt@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>, "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, "Stefan Kangas" <stefan@marxist.se>
> Subject: Re: EShell Alias for a 'cd' followed by 'ls'
>
> * Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> [2020-11-19 09:04]:
> > Well, what is your init file?
> >
> > If your init file is in ~/.emacs.d/init.el, it looks like the act of typing
> >     alias cl 'cd $* ; ls'
> > to the eshell prompt will write the filesystem itself, and create or modify
> > the file ~/.emacs.d/eshell/alias
> >
> > So that might be bad or that might be good, but it's a permanent change
> > (unless you edit the alias file): you need only type the characters once
> > and then forever after the alias is available (unless you explicitly erase
> > it).
>
> It is possible to undefine alias by duing
>
> $ alias ALIAS
>
> and alias will be not be there any more.
>