On 6 May 2010 20:31, Merciadri Luca wrote: > It simply does not work. Why? I tried without `'' but emacs then stops > highlighting the word, which is no good sign. Thanks. Don't mind about highlighting — alias defined in away like that: $ alias hello-world="echo 'hello world'" will work. Tested on bash 4.1.5(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu). Regards, Alexander Batischev