Re: Various notes on KSH_GLOB

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 May 2013 16:30:45 +0200
Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (Perhaps I just need a widget to type \^ when I type ^ after whitespace...)

This is quite straightforward, by the way...

quote-at-start() {
  if [[ $NUMERIC = '' ]]; then
    [[ $LBUFFER[-1] = ' ' || $LBUFFER = '' ]] && LBUFFER+='\'
  fi
  zle self-insert
}
zle -N quote-at-start
bindkey \^ quote-at-start

That gets confused by

echo 'stuff ^like ^this'

though some magic with split-shell-arguments ought to fix that.  You can
suppress the behaviour with ESC-1 beforehand, though come to think of it
using ^V beforehand is simpler and more obvious.

pws