Prevent the module from creating certain aliases

[dstcruz]

Is there a way to prevent the module from importing certain aliases? In my case, specifically, the alias fd shadows the fd command (the cool find command).

Is the solution to do something like this? This doesn't seem very clean, as it might end up not removing the alias that was intended.

Import-Module PSFzf -ArgumentList 'Ctrl+T','Ctrl+R'
Remove-Item alias:fd

[kelleyma49]

I have a commit up that uses New-Alias instead of Set-Alias - see https://github.com/kelleyma49/PSFzf/commit/5490cda782556300e291b5f5eedd8a85102e488a. This commit makes it so aliases declared before the import of PSFzf won't be overwritten. Will that solve your issue?

[glucas]

Using New-Alias to avoid clobbering existing aliases would be good. but won't solve the issue here where fd is an executable on the path rather than a predefined alias.

I think you'd need to check using Get-Command, e.g.

(Get-Command fd -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)  # fd exists, don't clobber it

[kelleyma49]

Using New-Alias to avoid clobbering existing aliases would be good. but won't solve the issue here where fd is an executable on the path rather than a predefined alias.

I think you'd need to check using Get-Command, e.g.

(Get-Command fd -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)  # fd exists, don't clobber it

Good point. I've updated PSFzf to use Get-Command. See release https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSFzf/1.1.19.