indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal) (08/12/90)
Users most often forget to run newalias after manually editing the .elm/aliases.text file. I have had several users question the aliasing ability of elm and I find they did not run newalias. I should think it would be a simple enhance elm to have it verify that aliases.text is not newer than the hash table. And either just run newalias or put out warning indicating the .elm/aliases.text is new and that the user should run newalias. Comments? -- iNDRA | indra@amd.com (Indra Singhal) (408) 749-5445 | {ames decwrl apple pyramid sun uunet}!amdcad!indra | MS 167; Box 3453; 901, Thompson Pl., Sunnyvale, CA 94088
lauther@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Ulrich Lauther) (08/13/90)
In article <1990Aug12.054343.26902@amd.com> indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal) writes: > >Users most often forget to run newalias after manually editing the >.elm/aliases.text file. I have had several users question the aliasing >ability of elm and I find they did not run newalias. > A simle solution would be to prvide a small shell-scipt to your users, that invoces your (or their) favourite editor *and* does the running of newalias, something like this: : vi $HOME/.elm/aliases.text $HOME/elm2.3/bin/newalias ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ulrich Lauther Internet: lauther@janus.berkeley.edu Siemens / UCB ph: +1 415 642 3338 fax: 642 2739 +1 415 658 8529 home