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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:13:52 +0100
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Subject: Re: "Literal" command execution
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Damien_Th=C3=A9bault?= <damien.thebault@gmail.com>
To: "Yuri D'Elia" <wavexx@users.sf.net>
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 20:51, Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@users.sf.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to reduce some typing here, as usual ;).
> I have a command line logger that allows free text as its main arguments =
(random example: taskwarrior). A typical example might be:
>
> =C2=A0command log [free text follows]
>
> I want to reduce escaping to the bare minimum. Dollars are not really a p=
roblem, but I discovered myself to escape '<' '>' and '!' too often.
>
> Of course I am already aware of both noglob and nocorrect, but I would ne=
ed something more extreme, as in "feed whatever text, including #, etc, tha=
t follows the command as arguments".
>
> Is there any way to achieve that?
> Maybe by some rewriting trick?

Hello,

For URLs I'm using something called url-quote-magic: when I start
writing an URL, it's detected and then all special characters are
escaped (&, <, >, !).
autoload -U url-quote-magic ; zle -N self-insert url-quote-magic
This is really great for copying+pasting URLs, for example to use it in wge=
t.

What you want to do looks pretty similar, so maybe this could be a
starting point for you? (except it's during a specific command
arguments instead of autodetected)

Regards,

--=20
Damien Thebault