[gentoo-user] [A bit off-topic] Bash alias and &

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
	A bit off topic here, but there are plenty of people who seem to know 
their shells back to front so here goes.

	I have set up a Win32 based development environment, 
bash/cc/ls/etc/etc, for 1st year Engineering students who have to learn 
C on a command line. It's fine for me to remember to put the & at the 
end of the command when I fire up the editor but for them, it's major 
angst.

	The first thing that comes to mind is an alias. Just off the top of my 
head I tried:

	alias "npp=npp %1 &"

npp being the editor, but that didn't work. Is an alias the best/easiest 
way to do this and if so, what would the syntax be, or is there a better 
way?

	Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,

		Andrew