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Re: Is there any possible way to automatically escape characters when executing an alias in zsh?

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From: Steve Dondley <s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Is there any possible way to automatically escape characters when executing an alias in zsh?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 16:45:59 -0400
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On 2021-09-11 03:28 PM, Peter Stephenson wrote:

On Sat, 2021-09-11 at 20:16 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:

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

Very cool. It works! No idea what the zle command does but I'll googleit. Thanks!

I have a number of aliases that begin with "ta" and "tm" that couldbenefit from this trick. I imagine I could turn the 'tasn '* bit into aregex test to check for a match.

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