thingsiplay , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

What I forgot in my previous comment: I have bunch of *rc aliases to open a specific config file with my neovim. It does not matter how the configuration file is named, with an extension, with rc in name, in what directory, it always follows the pattern singlecharacter+rc. Here some examples:

<span style="color:#323232;">alias brc='nvim ~/.bashrc &amp;&amp; source ~/.bashrc'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias nrc='nvim ~/.config/nvim'
</span>

As you see, it can even be a directory and not a file in case of nvim config. It would then show a filemanager on that directory with many config files.

Edit: Another thing I forgot (man I’m getting old) is that you can add a backslash at the front of a command, to run the actual command and not an alias. A common example is to have alias=‘grep --color=auto’ and alias=‘ls --color=auto’ . If this gets in your way, just run the command as grep or ls to run the original command instead.