Re: [Gnu-arch-users] User-defined "macro" commands

[Dustin Sallings]

On Dec 13, 2003, at 14:25, Mark Thomas wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Dustin Sallings wrote:
>
> >         I would hope that all of the existing alias commands could be
> > implemented using this type of structure so there wouldn't be a need
> > for aliased commands in tla proper.
>
> I don't really see how aliases (which are new names for other commands)
> and `macros' (new, locally defined, commands) fit together; they seem
> quite orthogonal to me.

	I just don't see the point in command aliases, especially with the 
ability to add aliases locally.  IMO, it's best to have exactly one 
command that performs any given task in the tla distribution.   If you 
don't like the name of that command, you can alias it locally.

> >         Also, if ``tla help'' could list these macros, then it would also
> > automatically provide those commands in my tcsh completion.  :)
>
> address@hidden/tla--markbt--1.1--patch-4 implements this.
>
> Additionally you can set the help description using a directive in the
> first 1k of the file that looks something like:
>
> <punct>help-description:<blanks><description>
>
> e.g.
>
> # help-description: does foo to bar with baz

        Excellent.

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