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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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 20:16:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecdbe8786e81e60a1c9b5a727a10af1f91566a95.camel@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8432871497e50ae7a6136a9e03a09ad6@dondley.com>

On Sat, 2021-09-11 at 14:41 -0400, Steve Dondley wrote:
> I have many aliases set up for taskwarrior in zsh:
> 
> alias tasn="task +sn add"`
> 
> On the command line, I'll type in:
> 
> tasn some task description here
> 
> Which works unless I put in single quote or some other character:
> 
> tasn call Tom's friend
> 
> This will thrown an error unless I escape the apostrophe.
> 
> I don't want to turn these into functions because then I lose the 
> autocomplete capabilities. I'm wondering if there might be some neat 
> trick that will allow me to automatically escape apostrophes (and other 
> problematic characters) in the task description.

Like this.


accept-with-quote() {
  if [[ $BUFFER = 'tasn '* && $BUFFER != *\\* ]]; then
      BUFFER=${BUFFER//\'/\\\'}
  fi
}
zle -N zle-line-finish accept-quote


Note that the line as updated is what goes into the history --- that's
why I've looked for the backslash and not update the line further if
there's one there.

pws



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-11 19:17 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 [this message]
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

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