allow aliases to override defined commands

diff --git a/mr b/mr
index 5c9d6a3a969640c8c73110f610ec61400bb04063..01a9feb6ae1001e8c97258423832202fd25f4e82 100755 (executable)
--- a/mr
+++ b/mr
@@ -218,24 +218,22 @@ eval {
 
 # alias expansion and command stemming
 my $action=shift @ARGV;
+if (exists $alias{$action}) {
+       $action=$alias{$action};
+}
 if (! exists $knownactions{$action}) {
-       if (exists $alias{$action}) {
-               $action=$alias{$action};
+       my @matches = grep { /^\Q$action\E/ }
+               keys %knownactions, keys %alias;
+       if (@matches == 1) {
+               $action=$matches[0];
+       }
+       elsif (@matches == 0) {
+               die "mr: unknown action \"$action\" (known actions: ".
+                       join(", ", sort keys %knownactions).")\n";
        }
        else {
-               my @matches = grep { /^\Q$action\E/ }
-                       keys %knownactions, keys %alias;
-               if (@matches == 1) {
-                       $action=$matches[0];
-               }
-               elsif (@matches == 0) {
-                       die "mr: unknown action \"$action\" (known actions: ".
-                               join(", ", sort keys %knownactions).")\n";
-               }
-               else {
-                       die "mr: ambiguous action \"$action\" (matches: ".
-                               join(", ", @matches).")\n";
-               }
+               die "mr: ambiguous action \"$action\" (matches: ".
+                       join(", ", @matches).")\n";
        }
 }
 
@@ -473,12 +471,14 @@ __DATA__
        co = checkout
        ci = commit
        ls = list
+
 [default]
 lib = \
        error() { \
                echo "mr: $@" >&2; \
                exit 1; \
        }
+
 update = \
        if [ -d "$MR_REPO"/.svn ]; then \
                svn update "$@"; \
@@ -530,9 +530,13 @@ log = \
                error "unknown repo type"; \
        fi
 list = true
+
 help = \
        if [ ! -e "$MR_PATH" ]; then \
                error "cannot find program path";\
        fi; \
        (pod2man -c mr "$MR_PATH" | man -l -) || \
                error "pod2man or man failed"
+
+ed = echo "A horse is a horse, of course, of course.."
+T = echo "I pity the fool."