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Document the ! (not) and . (source) aliases more

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Johannes Altmanninger
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source FILE [ARGUMENTS ...]
SOMECOMMAND | source
. FILE [ARGUMENTS ...]
Description
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The exit status of ``source`` is the exit status of the last job to execute. If something goes wrong while opening or reading the file, ``source`` exits with a non-zero status.
**.** (a single period) is an alias for the ``source`` command. The use of **.** is deprecated in favour of ``source``, and **.** will be removed in a future version of fish.
Some other shells only support the **.** alias (a single period).
The use of **.** is deprecated in favour of ``source``, and **.** will be removed in a future version of fish.
``source`` creates a new :ref:`local scope<variables-scope>`; ``set --local`` within a sourced block will not affect variables in the enclosing scope.