Re: eshell alias not working properly

[Joost Kremers]

Sum Proxy wrote:
> Hi
>
> I seem to be having problems with my eshell aliases,
> e.g. the following alias in the aliases file doesn't work in eshell 2.4.2, 
> emacs 24.4.1 
>============ 
> alias ff 'find-file $1' 
>============ 
> error message as is is given below 
>> find-file $1: command not found 
>
> Any ideas what may be going wrong?

Don't use quotes:

alias ff find-file $1

Otherwise eshell thinks that «find-file $1» is the command.



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