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I feel a bit misled that two of the "five types of aliases" are functions and regular aliases a second time.

Tldr: 1. aliases, 2. suffix aliases, 3. global aliases

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Well, first I thought about publishing 4 types (I see functions as a valid kind of alias)

However, the os-specific aliases became more and more important to me due to GitHub and VisualStudio Codespaces. Targeting different operating systems is quite important to me.

But technically it's just a regular alias. (Which is also mentioned in the corresponding paragraph)

>This article will teach you how to create and use these four types of aliases

>You have seen four different types of ZSH aliases that will boost your productivity

`four` in these two lines is typo or intentional? Because the title says `5 Types Of ...`

thanks for the feedback. I've updated the corresponding parts

This caught my attention too. A cursory search of the zsh docs don't mention functions being a type of alias. In particular:

> The registration of aliases with parameters looks pretty similar to a function definition in regular programming languages.

Well that's because it is a function definition in this programming language, no?

Furthermore, this breaks down when you, say, use `alias` to view all your aliases. It won't show the functions, because they are not aliases.

i think one of the main advantages of zshs aliases (compared to bash aliases) is autocompletion, so I would not count regular functions as a kind of alias. But I can see the similarities.

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