Expand all aliases on the command line

[Joe Caverly]

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TCC  25.00.20 x64   Windows 10 [Version 10.0.18362.356]

I have the following aliases;

e:\utils>alias cscript64
C:\Windows\system32\cscript.exe //nologo %$

e:\utils>alias vbs64
%@if[%# eq 0,dir *.vbs,cscript64]

If I run the command;

vbs64 math.vbs

...and expand it on the command line by pressing Ctrl-W...

e:\utils>%@if[1 eq 0,dir *.vbs,cscript64 //nologo] math.vbs

...why is the cscript64 alias not expanded?

Joe

 

[rconn]

Ctrl- W only expands aliases at the beginning of the command line or following a command separator.

To expand aliases inside an @IF would require the command line editor to execute the command line and evaluate the result. That's outside the editor's scope, and would introduce a host of new problems.

 

[Rick Reinckens]

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