ResolveContextAliases

is an option for Names, Contexts and related functions to control whether to resolve aliases when searching for symbols that match a string pattern.

Details

By default, Names and similar functions match string patterns against both the real names of symbols and shorter forms that could be typed in due to entries in $ContextAliases. With the setting ResolveContextAliasesFalse, the entries of $ContextAliases are ignored, and patterns are matched only against real symbol or context names.

Create a context alias:

Create a symbol using the alias:

By default, Names searches using the current aliases:

With ResolveContextAliasesFalse, searches using the alias fail:

Using the true name of the symbol still works:

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