alias-coach

A reminder/suggestion plugin for aliases.

This is a plugin for oh-my-zsh that reminds you every time you type a command you have an alias for. It will also suggest aliases for commonly used commands.

Install:

1.) Clone the repository or download as a zip

git clone https://github.com/claymullis/alias-coach.git

or

wget https://github.com/claymullis/alias-coach/archive/master.zip

2.) Unzip if needed and move folder alias-coach to ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/

# unzip alias_coach.zip
mv alias-coach ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/

3.) Add the plugin to your ~/.oh-my-zsh/zshrc

plugins=(
#...
alias-coach
#...
)

Examples:

Reminders

For this ~/.zshrc

alias dir=ls

Here are the results of calling ls. Note the output --- Reminder: alias dir=ls --- is appended to the results of the command.

> ls .
Folder
--- Reminder: alias dir=ls ---

After three failed attempts, program should interactively prompt you to change, delete or ignore the alias. Pressing enter with no input will ignore.

> ls
Folder
--- Reminder: `alias dir=ls` ---
> ls
Folder
--- Reminder: `alias dir=ls` ---
> ls
ls
Folder
--- Reminder: `alias dir=ls` ---
--- 3 failures. [c]hange/[d]elete/[I]gnore?  

Suggestions

If you use the same command frequently you will be asked if you want to alias it.

Commonly aliased commands will have friendly commands suggested from an opinionated master-list of good aliases to have. Otherwise you will be asked to type an alias name.

> ls -al
.git
srcf
> ls -al 
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 >  staff    96 Nov 21 19:51 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 34 >  staff  1088 Nov 24 05:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x+ 34 >  staff  1088 Nov 24 05:43 .git
drwxr-xr-x  10 >  staff   320 Nov 21 19:52 hello-world
> ls -al 
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 >  staff    96 Nov 21 19:51 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 34 >  staff  1088 Nov 24 05:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x+ 34 >  staff  1088 Nov 24 05:43 .git
drwxr-xr-x  10 >  staff   320 Nov 21 19:52 hello-world
> ls -al 
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 >  staff    96 Nov 21 19:51 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 34 >  staff  1088 Nov 24 05:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x+ 34 >  staff  1088 Nov 24 05:43 .git
drwxr-xr-x  10 >  staff   320 Nov 21 19:52 hello-world
--- Suggestion: `alias ls='ls -al'` ---
--- [c]reate/[e]dit/[I]gnore?

[c]reate

--- [c]reate/[e]dit/[I]gnore? c
--- Added alias `alias ls='ls -al'` to ~/.zshrc ---
>

[e]dit

--- [c]reate/[e]dit/[I]gnore? e
--- Enter custom alias name: ls_all
--- Added alias `alias ls_all='ls -al'` to ~/.zshrc ---
>

[I]gnore

--- [c]reate/[e]dit/[I]gnore? i
> 

Author

Written by Clay Mullis. MIT License, do whatever you want to with it.