On Jan 05, 2024 at 17:53, Sam B. wrote:
> I'll have a read through `url-quote-magic` too, which seems to do 
> something similar.

I quite liked the behaviour of `url-quote-magic` to simply type any of 
the "special" chars and have them automatically quoted. So I've modified 
`url-quote-magic` to escape chars only when the first word matches 
`task` or any alias to it.

There's probably a few improvements possible, but here's a first pass of 
my solution.

zstyle -m ':task-quote-magic:\*' task-seps '*' ||
     zstyle -e ':task-quote-magic:*' task-seps 'reply=("#{}&<>''${histchars[1]}")'

zstyle -m ':task-quote-magic' task-cmds '*' ||
     zstyle -e ':task-quote-magic' task-cmds \
         'zmodload -i zsh/parameter;
          reply=( task
                  ${(k)galiases[(R)(* |)task *]:-}
                  ${(k)aliases[(R)(* |)task *]:-} )'

function task-quote-magic {
     setopt localoptions noksharrays extendedglob
     local qkey="${(q)KEYS}"
     local -a reply match mbegin mend
     # is key different than quoted key
     if [[ "$KEYS" != "$qkey" ]]
     then
         local lbuf="$LBUFFER$qkey"
         if [[ "${(Q)LBUFFER}$KEYS" == "${(Q)lbuf}" ]]
         then
             local -a words
             words=("${(@Q)${(z)lbuf}}")
             local taskseps taskcmds
             zstyle -s ":task-quote-magic" task-cmds taskcmds '|'
             if [[ "$words[1]" == (#b)${~taskcmds} ]]
             then
                 zstyle -s ":task-quote-magic:$match[1]" task-seps taskseps ''
             fi
             [[ "$taskseps" == *"$KEYS"* ]] &&
                 LBUFFER="$LBUFFER\\"
         fi
     fi
     zle .self-insert
}
zle -N self-insert task-quote-magic