Example usage:

aliases -s test
Filtering by substring:  test

Global keys:

:env/test
:lib/spec-test
:test/cljs
:test/cloverage
:test/cognitect
:test/kaocha
:test/kaocha-cljs
:test/kaocha-global
:test/kaocha-watch
:test/midje
:test/run
:test/watch

Local keys:

:test

That's cool. Perhaps it can also let you invoke the alias. Like:

aliases run :test/watch

Yeah, there are lots of directions it could go. If people have ideas, it's a perfect beginner project.

Anyone wants to adopt it and turn it into a project, please do so, just let me know so I can use it!

There's also https://github.com/babashka/cli which lets you turn arguments like --foo --dude 123 into {:foo true :dude 123} automatically - perhaps useful when you want to build a nice shim over the -X stuff

btw, there is now clj -X:deps aliases that will list all your aliases and where they're from, adding search there would be easy to do

nice, didn't know that one yet

It'd definitely be nice for that to be baked in and for this to be redundant.

Another idea. Darrick's script could also print a docstring provided by the user:

:aliases {:test {:doc "Run tests" ...}}

Aliases:
:test - Run tests

For that to be most useful, @U064X3EF3's tool would encourage such good behaviours! 😉

if you want to file the suggestion at https;<//ask.clojure.org> that would be helpful to remember. I'd probably want a qualifier though. I am thinking about various self-documentation/help aspects of all this stuff when I have time for work on it