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I seem to be one of very few people that does not use shell aliases. I much prefer just using the reverse history search for previous commands instead. That way I don't have to remember what letter I picked for different things, just ctrl+r then partially type out the command and I can see what it will execute. Bonus that I don't need to set them up before hand and that I can edit them before executing them for those times when I need to do something slightly different.
you might want to take a look into shell abbreviations
e. g.
https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr
TBH, not quite the same. You have to know which one you want. If you don't quite or get it wrong you need to clear the line and start again. I quite like that I can reverse search and keep typing, or undo what I had typed and still see a list of the most recent things and can select from that list once I see what I want. This works for any command I have previously typed and dont need to setup specific key sequences for it - just any part of that command will find it again. Also works for complex chains of commands or pipes which I do not think aliases do work for.
I quite like adding a fuzzy finder to the history search - helps when I can only remember part of the command line I was using. Have just started using atuin.sh which seems okay.