From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: 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 20:33:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dd25eed-c33b-9c64-5151-ebcdad2220d8@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7abgV+EbUb6U-0bSyfgPUVQfd_q-9XmKMk=FPd8KVD97g@mail.gmail.com>
On 2021-09-11 4:17 p.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:
>
> Figuring out which quotes mean something and which ought to be
> re-quoted is not a trivial matter.
>
If any special character were to be automatically escaped, even if it
could be done, would it not implicitly break the normal use of that
character? Surely it is best to just use the shell syntax as it is
meant to be used even if that does cost a keystroke or two? Quoting and
escaping is one of the more understandable aspects of the shell why not
use the syntax as it is? Dunno, every time I try to get zsh to do
something she doesn't want to do I end up regretting it. Type the
escape and be done with it. Just my two cents.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-12 3:34 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
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 [this message]
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