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why alias man to woman doesn't work?


From: Xah Lee
Subject: why alias man to woman doesn't work?
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: G2/1.0

got this comment.

«You define man as an alias for woman? woman doesn't work all the
time, if it fails, how do you invoke man?»

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


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