From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
Cc: Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com>, Zsh Users <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 16:17:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7abgV+EbUb6U-0bSyfgPUVQfd_q-9XmKMk=FPd8KVD97g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88e7249e-09d7-4fc2-8b7f-d9e00c86f44f@www.fastmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 11:41 AM Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> wrote:
>
> tasn call Tom's friend
>
> This will thrown an error unless I escape the apostrophe.
Sorry, why does this produce an error?
% tasn call Tom's friend
quote>
Do you use setopt cshjunkiequotes ?
> I don't want to turn these into functions because then I lose the
> autocomplete capabilities.
Turning them into functions wouldn't help with quote parsing anyway.
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 3:39 PM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> wrote:
>
> This is fun and all, but it's not clear to me why this is desirable
> over, say:
>
> % tasn "call Tom's friend"
PWS's solution is also going to produce this result:
% tasn call 'double "quotes" here'
tasn call \'double "quotes" here\'
which is probably not the desired effect?
Figuring out which quotes mean something and which ought to be
re-quoted is not a trivial matter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-11 23:17 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 [this message]
2021-09-11 23:33 ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-12 3:33 ` Ray Andrews
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