[Feature Request] Add ability to define functions as noglob

[Feature Request] Add ability to define functions as noglob

[Aryn Starr]

A lot of functions need to be noglob. My current workflow is to define the function as `function sth-raw()` and then `alias sth='noglob sth-raw'`. (I use different names so that I can use `which sth-raw` to easily inspect the source.)
It’d be so much better if zsh adds a way to handle this more elegantly. Something like `noglobfun sth() ...`.
(I personally turn off all auto-corrections, otherwise I’d probably have had the same problem with nocorrect, too.)

Re: [Feature Request] Add ability to define functions as noglob

[Daniel Shahaf]

Aryn Starr wrote on Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:54 +00:00:
> A lot of functions need to be noglob.

Why?  What's the use-case?  Maybe noglob isn't the right tool for the job.

> My current workflow is to define the function as `function sth-raw()`
> and then `alias sth='noglob sth-raw'`. (I use different names so that
> I can use `which sth-raw` to easily inspect the source.)

You don't need to use different names.  «which foo» would only expand
«foo» if it were a global alias, which in your case it isn't.

Re: [Feature Request] Add ability to define functions as noglob

[Aryn Starr]

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1. Any function getting urls or math expressions (code expressions in general, in fact) is much more useable with noglob. And I have quite a few of such functions.
2. Probably an option set by oh-my-zsh is changing my which. I don’t want to disable such an option, though, since I greatly benefit from it.

Another point I forgot; Aliases are generally not as good as functions, since you need to define the alias before you can use it. This introduces incidental complexity and a need to manage what came before what.

> On Aug 15, 2019, at 7:55 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> 
> Aryn Starr wrote on Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:54 +00:00:
>> A lot of functions need to be noglob.
> 
> Why?  What's the use-case?  Maybe noglob isn't the right tool for the job.
> 
>> My current workflow is to define the function as `function sth-raw()`
>> and then `alias sth='noglob sth-raw'`. (I use different names so that
>> I can use `which sth-raw` to easily inspect the source.)
> 
> You don't need to use different names.  «which foo» would only expand
> «foo» if it were a global alias, which in your case it isn't.
> 
>