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Subject: Re: Avoiding the zshells intelligence...in one case
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On 23/01/17 02:26 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>
> If Meino has URLs where the schema starts with a tilde, though, he's
> in worse trouble than this.
>
Too bad there was no option to just turn *everything* off for the one 
command.  So often we end up fighting the shell's expansions with 
various incantations whereas:


setopt everyexpansionoff

command

unsetopt everyexpansionoff

... would be so much more understandable.  I know it's not the way 
shells work, but why not?  I now understand why this sort of thing can't 
be done with the 'whence -m' situation but so long as the option was 
unset before a command is reached, it should be at least possible in 
theory.  Can't the whole expansion engine just be bypassed in one very 
long jump?