Re: vared/zle silently discards non-utf8 bytes

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> varedquote() {
>   # ignoring vared options for now....
>   local var=${argv[-1]}
>   local val=${(q)${(P)var}}
>   # hmmm... if the user stripped some quoting the following is
>   # a bit fraught...
>   vared val && eval ${var}=${val}
> }
> 
> should work because the (q) flag is already smart about unprintable
> characters (except it does rely on the user not removing backslashes in the
> variable).

Much better:

varedquote() {
  # ignoring vared options for now....
  local var=${argv[-1]}
  local val=${(q)${(P)var}}
  vared val && eval ${var}="\${(Q)val}"
}

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