Re: Expanding quotes

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 26/12/13 06:50 AM, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> On 12/24/2013 06:18 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
>> I prefer simplicity with some resulting limitations on what can be done,
>> over complicated efforts to do 'anything'.  It's just as Bart said, some
>> issues are better left 'unsolved'. The solution could be worse than the
>> problem.  I think back to my DOS days, where almost all of the 'special'
>> characters were reserved--it sure made things simpler.
> I think you're conflating the text UI of a shell, the filesystem and the
> shell language itself as part of the same issue. Yes, taken together, I
> do agree that from my user point of view it's definitely inconvenient
> and the interaction is not ideal. However, I would gladly prefer a shell
> solution than "fixing" what's clearly not broken: the filesystem.
You're right, I'm looking at this as one collective issue.  But IMHO the 
thing that is broken is to permit things like double quotes in a 
filename at all.  From what I understand, POSIX does not allow it, but 
maybe I misunderstand.  Anyway, if somehow zsh can learn to live with 
this sort of thing, then so be it, but I think the task should not be 
asked.  Perhaps some switch or flag of some sort could be added to 
indicate: "I have quotes in filenames here ... God be with you." Anyway, 
that's how it looks to me, maybe I'm wrong.