after reading When An Alias Should Actually Be An Abbr | sean henderson I completely abandon using alias in fish shell, use abbr ever since.

abbr will expand the command into what it shorts for, before pressing enter to execute it. For me the biggest advantage is that when searching the shell history there is no hidden complexity, you don’t have to member all the black magic that a short command name stands for.

abbr is the new alias, function for everything else