Re: why alias man to woman doesn't work?

[Xah Lee]

On Apr 4, 6:28 pm, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Good question.  The technical reason is that woman.el begins with
> (require 'man), so when you do M-x man, it autoloads `woman', which
> loads `man', which redefines `man' thus overwriting your defalias.
>
> So you have to do
>
>    (defalias 'man 'woman)
>    (eval-after-load 'woman '(defalias 'man 'woman))
>
> to get what you want,
>
>         Stefan


thanks. Good info.

 Xah