zsh: in-progress removing bad aliases

.zshrc

@@ -166,22 +166,25 @@
    # <<<
    # optionally source an external alias file
    [ -f "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/shell/aliasrc" ] && source "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/shell/aliasrc"
+}
 
 # # TODO: remove all aliases that refrence programs which do not exist >>>
-   # alias fdsa=not_an_alias
+# alias fdsa=not_an_alias # test alias
+# alias what='which ' # this will return 0 if something we give it cannot be executed
 # validate_alias() {
-   #    echo "validating alias $1"
-   #    if alias "$1";then
-   #       validate_alias ${1}
-   #    else
+#    what "$1"
 # }
-   # for ALIAS in $(alias | cut -d = -f 1);do
-   #    ! validate_alias "$ALIAS" &&
+# # what fdsa
+# # may need to use xargs
+# for ALIAS in $(alias | cut -d = -f 1);do # assumes you don't have = signs in your alias's names
+#    echo "validating alias $ALIAS"
+#    what "$ALIAS"  &&
 #       unalias "$ALIAS" &&
 #       echo "alias $ALIAS was removed"
-   # done # <<<
+#    done
+#    alias q=exit
+#    # <<<
 
-}
 # <<<
 ### Functions >>>
 {