Forums Feature Suggestions $isalias(join).line

Hello,

I wanna suggest to add the .line proper in the $isalias alias.

e.g: $isalias(join).line -> return 5

- Thanks!

Why is that? Why does it return 5?

That was an example, read carefully the post!

I can see a small benefit of a line number combined with the current fname property in determining the location of an alias. It can make finding an alias easier if the alias is a common word that may be found many times when using Ctrl-F to find it. Of course, a search for "aliasname {" is almost guaranteed to find it the first time, so that's a really minor thing. And that doesn't even require knowing the filename. It could also be used for letting a script edit that alias easily, which is not a normal thing that a script would be doing, so that's not really that important.

I'm not sure of any use where it would really be that useful. Maybe you can explain why it would be worth adding?

I've read the post five times and you haven't explained what you want it to do!

I assume you want it to return the line number where the alias starts at?

I did read your post carefully. As hixxy said, you didn't explain why this feature should be included. What does it do exactly?

What you have done is throw something you wish for in our face and expect us to understand you.

Yes.

NOTE: Yes, i forgot to explain what the proper will do, i suppose to understand from the example .

It's always better to explain what something should do when suggesting new features. Examples are great, but without a description, it leaves people guessing. I did know what you meant with this one, but had to think about your /did -p suggestion to figure out what you meant with that. Save people the trouble by explaining what it should do.

"This lets you find out what line the alias is on."
"This lets you change the position (center/left/right) of text in a dialog."

Things like that. Unless it's a complicated suggestion, a simple description is enough, especially with an example.