Re: The def* commands (Was: [RP] Getting Through and Locking XTerm Width)

[Shawn Betts]

Martin Samuelsson <address@hidden> writes:

> The main reason for removing them would be that they clutter the
> name space, but I guess I and others concerned by that can run unalias in
> our own startup scripts¹...

Yes, the clutter is an issue. So I've created a command 'compat' and
moved the def* aliases into it. By default you don't get those
aliases, but if you miss them, you can put compat in your rc file.

Then, eventually, maybe, i'll remove them.

> Which brings us to the question, why does :unalias only accept one
> argument? But that keeps the executable size down I guess, so maybe it's
> the right behavior although other similar implementations accept to
> unalias several aliases at a time.

Cheapness, I guess. I see no problem with unalias accepting a list,
except that it'd be a bit irritating to parse.

-Shawn