28375: clarify how to quote aliases from expansion

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo b/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo
index a8e223bb9..b8b20beed 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo
@@ -477,12 +477,15 @@ cindex(aliases, global)
 An alias is defined using the tt(alias) builtin; global aliases
 may be defined using the tt(-g) option to that builtin.
 
-Alias expansion is done on the shell input before any
-other expansion except history expansion.  Therefore,
-if an alias is defined for the word tt(foo), alias expansion
-may be avoided by quoting part of the word, e.g. tt(\foo).
-But there is nothing to prevent an alias being defined
-for tt(\foo) as well.
+Alias expansion is done on the shell input before any other expansion
+except history expansion.  Therefore, if an alias is defined for the
+word tt(foo), alias expansion may be avoided by quoting part of the
+word, e.g. tt(\foo).  But there is nothing to prevent an alias being
+defined for tt(\foo) as well.  For use with completion, which would
+remove an initial backslash following by a character that isn't special,
+it may be more convenient to quote the word by starting with a single
+quote, i.e. tt('foo); completion will automatically add the trailing
+single quote.
 
 There is a commonly encountered problem with aliases
 illustrated by the following code: