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aliases: provide more flexible ways to work with shell alias arguments

This patch changes the functionality of shell aliases to add more powerful
options for working with shell alias arguments.

First: the alias name + arguments to a shell alias are set as an HG_ARGS
environment variable, delimited by spaces. This matches the behavior of hooks.

Second: any occurrences of "$@" (without quotes) are replaced with the
arguments, separated by spaces. This happens *before* the alias gets to the shell.

Third: any positive numeric variables ("$1", "$2", etc) are replaced with the
appropriate argument, indexed from 1. "$0" is replaced with the name of the
alias. Any "extra" numeric variables are replaced with an empty string.  This
happens *before* the alias gets to the shell.

These changes allow for more flexible shell aliases:

    [alias]
    echo = !echo $@
    count = !hg log -r "$@" --template='.' | wc -c | sed -e 's/ //g'
    qqueuemv = !mv "`hg root`/.hg/patches-$1" "`hg root`/.hg/patches-$2"

In action:

    $ hg echo foo
    foo

    $ hg count 'branch(default)'
    901

    $ hg count 'branch(stable) and keyword(fixes)'
    102

    $ hg qqueuemv myfeature somefeature

head: 1.2
branch:
locks: strict
access list:
symbolic names:
	MYBRANCH1_2: 1.1.2.2.0.2
	MYBRANCH1_1: 1.1.0.4
	MYBRANCH1: 1.1.0.2
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 8;	selected revisions: 8
description:
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revision 1.2
date: 2009/04/02 07:00:32;  author: user;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1;  kopt: kv;  commitid: 14d449d462903487;  mergepoint: 1.1.2.2.2.1;  filename: foo.txt;
merge
----------------------------
revision 1.1
date: 2009/04/02 06:50:43;  author: user;  state: Exp;  kopt: kv;  commitid: 17ac49d460432d04;  filename: foo.txt;
branches:  1.1.2;  1.1.4;
foo.txt
----------------------------
revision 1.1.4.2
date: 2009/04/02 07:02:51;  author: user;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0;  kopt: kv;  commitid: 170049d4631b364d;  mergepoint: 1.1.2.2;  filename: foo.txt;
merge
----------------------------
revision 1.1.4.1
date: 2009/04/02 06:53:42;  author: user;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1;  kopt: kv;  commitid: dc849d460f52f49;  filename: foo.txt;
quux
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revision 1.1.2.2
date: 2009/04/02 06:53:20;  author: user;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1;  kopt: kv;  commitid: 8ec49d460e02f04;  filename: foo.txt;
branches:  1.1.2.2.2;
baz
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revision 1.1.2.1
date: 2009/04/02 06:52:38;  author: user;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1;  kopt: kv;  commitid: d5049d460b62e7b;  filename: foo.txt;
bar
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revision 1.1.2.2.2.1
date: 2009/04/02 06:55:42;  author: user;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1;  kopt: kv;  commitid: 11c849d4616d30d1;  filename: foo.txt;
bazzie
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