Too many aliases? Pshaw! There's no such thing

Buckets of aliases

I've put a few aliases in my .zshrc or .bashrc to simplify all the
things—translation: I'm too lazy to type that much.
I also use oh-my-zsh, and
plugins for oh-my-zsh. For example, in my .zshrc I have the
following plugins that generate many useful aliases:

plugins=(bower brew bundler capistrano copydir copyfile django
  fabric gem git git-extras gitignore heroku node npm nvm pip
  postgres python rails rsync ruby safe-paste ssh-agent tmux
  tmuxinator virtualenv virtualenvwrapper vundle xcode)

Chunking alias with ack

Occasionally, I need to see a list, and typing alias will print that list,
but that list is now long so I take advantage of grep, or more often
ack, to return a chunk of aliases like so:

# Print out a paginated list of all aliases that start with the letter "r"
alias|grep "^r"|less

I show grep first because everyone using a POSIX-compliant OS has
it, but I prefer use ack because it's better. I even have an
.ackrc full of useful options.

So now I can just type:

alias|ack "r"

or just put 1 function and 1 more alias in my .zshrc (I know. Crazy right?):

ack_alias() {
  alias|ack "^$1"
}

alias ackk=ack_alias

and in a new shell source .zshrc

and voilà: typing ackk r now produces a much shorter, paginated list of
aliases that begin with the letter "r".