From: Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>, "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 19:33:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec7ae2eb894e00a522d1cd343f381ff4@dondley.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7abgV+EbUb6U-0bSyfgPUVQfd_q-9XmKMk=FPd8KVD97g@mail.gmail.com>
> Sorry, why does this produce an error?
Ok, it's not technically producing an error in the shell but it is an
error with taskwarrior. It doesn't respond properly. Other kinds of
punctuation will also cause more serious problems and confusion. Like
'&'.
> % tasn call Tom's friend
> quote>
>
> Do you use setopt cshjunkiequotes ?
No, not familiar with it. But as mentioned above, quotes aren't the only
problematic punctuation characters. So I'm not sure that would work.
> 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?
I just tried it with taskwarrior. The double quote are stripped out. But
it's unlikely I'd ever write a task like that. 99% of the time the
problem I have is with me having to escape (or forgetting to escape),
parentheses and apostrophes.
> Figuring out which quotes mean something and which ought to be
> re-quoted is not a trivial matter.
True, but I'm not going to let the perfect be then enemy of the pretty
damn good.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-11 23:33 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 [this message]
2021-09-12 3:33 ` Ray Andrews
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