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Re: Quoting the arguments to a function

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Quoting the arguments to a function
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:52:30 +0200
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On 2016-09-15 14:41:03 -0700, zv wrote:
> I want to supply the arguments of a function (an alias to Emacs
> `calc') without expansion, e.g:
> 
> 	zv@computer# calc 20/2*15
> 	150
> 
> Today of course the result gives "zsh: no matches found: 20*15/2"
> 
> Is there any way to signal to ZSH that an alias or fn should have
> arguments supplied literally?

IMHO, arguments should also be properly quoted, but the solution
would be a feature in ZLE to do the quoting automatically. Something
like url-quote-magic.

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