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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Quoting the arguments to a function
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:52:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160916105230.GB3491@cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nrf4he$u13$1@blaine.gmane.org>

On 2016-09-15 14:41:03 -0700, zv wrote:
> I want to supply the arguments of a function (an alias to Emacs
> `calc') without expansion, e.g:
> 
> 	zv@computer# calc 20/2*15
> 	150
> 
> Today of course the result gives "zsh: no matches found: 20*15/2"
> 
> Is there any way to signal to ZSH that an alias or fn should have
> arguments supplied literally?

IMHO, arguments should also be properly quoted, but the solution
would be a feature in ZLE to do the quoting automatically. Something
like url-quote-magic.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-16 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-15 21:41 zv
2016-09-15 22:17 ` Philippe Troin
2016-09-16  0:09 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2016-09-16  0:10   ` zv
2016-09-16  0:12     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2016-09-16 10:52 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2016-09-16 17:09   ` Bart Schaefer
     [not found]   ` <160916100934.ZM11263__9881.101063411$1474045859$gmane$org@torch.brasslantern.com>
2016-09-17  6:24     ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-09-17 14:35       ` Bart Schaefer

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