From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Steve Dondley" <s@dondley.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Is there any possible way to automatically escape characters when executing an alias in zsh?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:39:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <88e7249e-09d7-4fc2-8b7f-d9e00c86f44f@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb9cb8efd1aba27fcc3ac0527923ec1b@dondley.com>
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021, at 5:01 PM, Steve Dondley wrote:
>
> > "man zshzle" will tell you about special widgets. Basically, they're
> > just user defined commands that instead of being called by a keystroke
> > are called at particular points during editing.
> >
> > The test is just an ordinary zsh pattern, as used for globbing / file
> > matching, so it's easy to extend...
> >
> > if [[ $BUFFER = (tasn|taxx|tmxx)' '* && $BUFFER != *\\* ]]; then
>
> Nice. Yeah, this annoyance has been bugging me for years. I'll share
> this out to the TW community, I'm sure others will love this, too.
This is fun and all, but it's not clear to me why this is desirable
over, say:
% tasn "call Tom's friend"
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vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-11 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-11 18:41 Steve Dondley
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 [this message]
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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