On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:15:35AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > In other words, I think the OP could do a similar thing (start a > subshell with edit unaliased) entirely in zsh.
$ (unalias edit; reportbug) I'd be very shocked if that doesn't work in zsh. It works in all the Bourne-family shells. (Fails in csh, but nothing about "fails in csh" should surprise anyone at this point.) However, I am still extremely confused about why an interactive shell alias (in ANY shell) would affect the operations of reportbug. Does reportbug run "edit" in a $SHELL of the user's choosing after sourcing all of the user's dot files? Or is this some bizarre zsh thing? Normally I would expect a program to use the user's $EDITOR or $VISUAL environment variable to decide which editor to run. I would also not expect aliases to be defined at that point.
