From: Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Is there any possible way to automatically escape characters when executing an alias in zsh?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 16:45:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01fed731885d32a336c7b0f31c8f4156@dondley.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4df9fd0786c03076984bfd7d5cccc34c6780f519.camel@ntlworld.com>
On 2021-09-11 03:28 PM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-09-11 at 20:16 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
>> accept-with-quote() {
>> if [[ $BUFFER = 'tasn '* && $BUFFER != *\\* ]]; then
>> BUFFER=${BUFFER//\'/\\\'}
>> fi
>> }
>> zle -N zle-line-finish accept-quote
Very cool. It works! No idea what the zle command does but I'll google
it. Thanks!
I have a number of aliases that begin with "ta" and "tm" that could
benefit from this trick. I imagine I could turn the 'tasn '* bit into a
regex test to check for a match.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-11 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-11 18:41 Steve Dondley
2021-09-11 19:00 ` zzapper
2021-09-11 19:16 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-09-11 19:28 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-09-11 20:45 ` Steve Dondley [this message]
2021-09-11 20:53 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-09-11 21:01 ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-11 22:39 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-09-11 23:15 ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-12 0:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-12 1:27 ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-12 2:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-12 3:02 ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-11 23:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-11 23:33 ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-12 3:33 ` Ray Andrews
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