Better way to use alias bat instead of batcat symlink for ubuntu

[anand-dragon]

Hi,
I saw your README page and the section Installation where you have for Ubuntu an idea of using symlink to ~/.local/bin rather than creating symlinks isn't it way better to just use alias. For example on my system I have Zsh so I just did alias bat="batcat" and that was it. IMO it seems a better and fuzz-free idea.

I read your contributing documentation but was't sure how the README updates would work out so created a new issue.

[anand-dragon]

Since this is my first open source contribution, some guidelines to push my changes to remote would be appreciated.

[keith-hall]

Hi,

Readme updates work the same way as any other changes 🙂 just there is no need to test locally as tests shouldn't be affected 😉 and as mentioned in the contributing guide, no need to add a changelog. (You likely will see that the changelog CI step failed but that is expected and fine.)
You would fork the repository, clone it locally, create a branch in your fork, make your changes and commit them, and push them to your remote. Then in this repo on GitHub's website, where we are now, create a Pull Request, click compare across forks, with sharkdp/bat as the base and choose your fork's branch as the head.