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Novice Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 45

In zmud I had a few aliases with names starting with - or = (e.g -su =ke)
It seems i cannot name aliases in Cmud that way, which is rather annoying as I am used to these aliases for years now.

I can create them in the package editor no problem, but when I type =ke in the command line, the alias seems unknown ('I do not follow your meaning')

Any ideas?

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:25 pm

Confirmed, just about every non-alphanumeric character doesn't work.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Somewhere Zugg mentions this but I don't remember what his plans were for the future.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:44 pm

TMany are now special characters which are reserved for use by the parser (-+*/=) to name a few. Because the new parser is stricter on syntax these will not be available for alias names. If I recall correctly there were no plans to change this but Zugg will correct me if I'm wrong.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:47 pm

Part of this is a bug. I *did* add support for aliases that start with non-alphabetic characters. You can only define them within the Package Editor by editing the alias name (cannot use the #ALIAS command to create wierd alias names). Also, these wierd aliases can only be used on the command line, and not within other scripts.

However, when I tried this, it seems to be broken in the current version.

Officially, it is not recommended that you use non-alphabetic characters at the beginning of the alias name. And these "wierd" aliases will never be supported within other scripts...they will only work from the command line.