[IPython-dev] What To Do With a Problem Like 'cd /'?

[Dan Milstein]

Got it. Done + committed + a test added.

-Dan

On May 23, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Ville M. Vainio wrote:

> On 5/23/07, Dan Milstein <danmil at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>   - Do you also want to treat aliases similarly?
>>
>> Meaning: should we allow alias expansion on lines which look like:
>>
>>    an_alias /
>
> Yes. Performing anything else than assignment on a non-existing name
> is illegal python anyway.
>
>> Now that I've got assignment split out from other python ops, that's
>> trivial to add, but I haven't done it yet (mostly because I'm a tiny
>> bit fuzzy on the whole alias/magic divide).
>
> That's because the divide is not technically necessary. My evil
> masterplan is to to get rid of the concepts of "alias" (though not the
> keyword!) at some point. At least on source code level, read my
> previous simplegeneric mail if interested.
>
> In the meantime, a handy alias to use for ipython devs:
>
> $ alias timeline start http://projects.scipy.org/ipython/ipython/ 
> timeline
> $ %store timeline
>
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