Completed filenames quoted instead of escaped?

Completed filenames quoted instead of escaped?

[Daniel]

I would like completed and expanded filenames to generally "be quoted"
instead\ of\ escaped. Would that be possible? If find that more readable.

Re: Completed filenames quoted instead of escaped?

[Peter Stephenson]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:25:43 +0000 (UTC)
Daniel <quite@hack.org> wrote:
> I would like completed and expanded filenames to generally "be quoted"
> instead\ of\ escaped. Would that be possible? If find that more readable.

If you type " before a filename, it will be completed in double quotes
and (when possible) another " added at the end.  It's not possible to
configure it to add a double quote in front only when needed.  As things
stand at the moment, it's extremely unlikely it ever will be.

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Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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Re: Completed filenames quoted instead of escaped?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Oct 23,  5:39pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: Completed filenames quoted instead of escaped?
}
} On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:25:43 +0000 (UTC)
} Daniel <quite@hack.org> wrote:
} > I would like completed and expanded filenames to generally "be quoted"
} > instead\ of\ escaped. Would that be possible? If find that more readable.
} 
} If you type " before a filename, it will be completed in double quotes
} and (when possible) another " added at the end.  It's not possible to
} configure it to add a double quote in front only when needed.

I seem to recall writing a widget that would insert a quote, then do
completion, and then if nothing changed remove the quote again.  Oh,
yes:

    Functions/Zle/quote-and-complete-word

Search the zsh-users archives for "completion;quote" and you should
find a couple of threads from 2010 discussing this.