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From: Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com>
To: Zsh users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Is there any possible way to automatically escape characters when executing an alias in zsh?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 14:41:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8432871497e50ae7a6136a9e03a09ad6@dondley.com> (raw)

I have many aliases set up for taskwarrior in zsh:

alias tasn="task +sn add"`

On the command line, I'll type in:

tasn some task description here

Which works unless I put in single quote or some other character:

tasn call Tom's friend

This will thrown an error unless I escape the apostrophe.

I don't want to turn these into functions because then I lose the 
autocomplete capabilities. I'm wondering if there might be some neat 
trick that will allow me to automatically escape apostrophes (and other 
problematic characters) in the task description.

Thanks.


             reply	other threads:[~2021-09-11 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-11 18:41 Steve Dondley [this message]
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
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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