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		cozzyd on Jan 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machin... I like to alias emacs to vim or rm, depending on how charitable I'm feeling. (Kidding obviously, at least for the latter).

friendlyHornet on Jan 15, 2023 [–]

I would alias both vim and emacs to cat

I think at first the colleague might assume it's a bug in the terminal not someone had replaced the command with an alias

or just alias them to echo, so that it prints out the file name, not even the file content

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