[NCLUG] bash alias

[Daniel Herrington]

I use tcsh most of the time.  I have an alias for xemacs so that I can 
just type "xe <file>" and it starts xemacs and puts it in the
background.  The alias I use for this is the following:

alias xe  'xemacs \!* &' 

How would I do the same thing in bash?

Thanks,
   Daniel