Set alias to component in dropdown list

I’m not sure if a standard way exists to set aliases for these hidden components.
But you can find and edit aliases from the grasshopper settings folder/grasshopper_aliases.xml or %AppData%\Grasshopper\grasshopper_aliases.xml.
To add an alias for a component you need to know its Guid.

Here I wrote two small scripts, one for getting all aliases, and the other for adding or removing aliases:

Aliases.gh (22.1 KB)

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