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

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2021, at 5:01 PM, Steve Dondley wrote:
> 
> > "man zshzle" will tell you about special widgets.  Basically, they're
> > just user defined commands that instead of being called by a keystroke
> > are called at particular points during editing.
> > 
> > The test is just an ordinary zsh pattern, as used for globbing / file
> > matching, so it's easy to extend...
> > 
> > if [[ $BUFFER = (tasn|taxx|tmxx)' '* && $BUFFER != *\\* ]]; then
> 
> Nice. Yeah, this annoyance has been bugging me for years. I'll share 
> this out to the TW community, I'm sure others will love this, too.

This is fun and all, but it's not clear to me why this is desirable
over, say:

    % tasn "call Tom's friend"

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vq