On Jan 04, 2024 at 15:38, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 10:10 AM Sam B. <me@rmz.io> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm looking for a way to disable most shell expansion for the arguments
>> to a script or function
> 
>>      todo Text inc. $var, *glob?, events!, <redirs, > (sub) & more
> 
> accept-and-do-nothing() {
>  BUFFER=': !#:0:s/\://:p !"'"$BUFFER"
>  zle accept-line
> }
> zle -N accept-and-do-nothing

That looks promising. Thanks.

> If "todo" is the only command for which you want this effect, you
> could replace the ":" with "todo".

Might want a few more. But this should only apply to these selected 
commands.

>> Mostly I'm interested joting down some plain text which could include
>> '?!&' and have "todo" receive it all without the shell having done some
>> magic beforehand.
> 
> However, have you considered using edit-command-line (possibly
> repeatedly) to jot things down, and then quote-region or similar when
> happy before executing?

I want this to be as frictionless and quick as possible. Opening up an 
editor is a bit much.

This made me realise though that I don't *need* it to be quoted, I would 
be happy if it would escape those chars individually, either as I type 
or on accepting the line.

I found this very similar question[1] from a few years ago which solves 
the problem for quotes. I'll also try this and see if it'll work for 
other special chars too.

[1]: https://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2021/msg00819.html

Will have a play with all this when back from holiday though. Silly of 
me to ask a question just before being AFK for a few weeks.

I'll have a read through `url-quote-magic` too, which seems to do 
something similar.

Thanks.