Alias escaping

[DieracDelta]

Alias escaping

[faho]

Use command cat.

There is no need to make this a shortcut, and backslash is a terrible character to use for this given how overloaded it is (my theory has always been that the alias skipping is unintentional as a side-effect of the order expansions happen in - "cat" also skips the alias)

This syntax would not match fish's philosophy - we generally don't add sigil syntax for rarely used shortcuts, and it would also gel terribly with fish as it stands - in fish, \ca is the byte usually sent by ctrl-a (and e.g. \b is backspace). In bash, backslashes outside of $'' are basically vestigial syntax that will, for normal characters, just always yield the character - \x is x for any letter.