From e763a8dcef25a653bb4ede6a8965bd1f10bc54d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JT <547158+jntrnr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:36:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Auto-hide aliases to prevent recursion (#4487)

---
 crates/nu-parser/src/parser.rs | 3 +++
 src/tests/test_parser.rs       | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crates/nu-parser/src/parser.rs b/crates/nu-parser/src/parser.rs
index eacc98090..07c493cc7 100644
--- a/crates/nu-parser/src/parser.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-parser/src/parser.rs
@@ -851,7 +851,10 @@ pub fn parse_call(
                     new_spans.extend(&spans[(pos + 1)..]);
                 }
 
+                working_set.enter_scope();
+                working_set.hide_alias(&name);
                 let (mut result, err) = parse_expression(working_set, &new_spans, false);
+                working_set.exit_scope();
 
                 result.replace_span(working_set, expansion_span, orig_span);
 
diff --git a/src/tests/test_parser.rs b/src/tests/test_parser.rs
index 75b8b7dde..dac9593a9 100644
--- a/src/tests/test_parser.rs
+++ b/src/tests/test_parser.rs
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ fn alias_2_multi_word() -> TestResult {
     )
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn alias_recursion() -> TestResult {
+    run_test_contains(r#"alias ls = (ls | sort-by type name -i); ls"#, " ")
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn block_param1() -> TestResult {
     run_test("[3] | each { $it + 10 } | get 0", "13")