Shorter alias for Positron?

[kv9898]

Now that Positron supports launching from the command line in WSL, I’ve started to feel that the name positron is a bit long to type—especially compared to its code counterpart.

Would it be possible (or preferable) to introduce a shorter alias, such as pos, for convenience?

[juliasilge]

I think it's likely we would have interested folks do this on an individual basis (such as with alias pos=positron) rather than make it part of the product we ship. Let's use this discussion post to gather input and feedback on the idea!

[kv9898]

Sure! From my experience it's quite nasty to do it on Windows. I'm currently using a hack and I will post it below.

[kv9898]

For Windows (and WSL) users, this can be achieved by creating the following files in positron\bin:

pos:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
"$DIR/positron" "$@"

pos.cmd:

@echo off
"%~dp0positron.cmd" %*