On: Unix is not an acceptable Unix

[icebraining]

Why not, if you can combine them permanently using a shell script?

[guard-of-terra → icebraining]

I won't be doing that.

And if someone else does that for me, I've suddently got 400 (n^2) aliases that I can't reason about.

[icebraining → guard-of-terra]

I wouldn't say you need 400 aliases. You'd only need aliases for the commonly typed pattern, not for any possible combination you might ever use.