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From: amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead)
Subject: TADS: Have you implemented an alias command?
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:59:48 GMT
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I was just trying Jacob Weinstein's _Save Princeton_ (a neat start, I
like the on-line instructions)...

And I was thinking that I'd like to alias certain commands as others.
For instance, I keep hitting 'h' instead of 'l' (too much UNIX mail, I
guess).

Has anyone implemented an aliasing ability in TADS?  Using preparse(),
you could change any input into anything else, so conflicts need not
occur...

Just wondering.

-alan mead
