Autoquote everything up until shell redirection character?

[jez]

First, wanted to say thanks for this project, I've wanted something like it for a long time and am glad to have found this.

Second, I'm struggling to come up with a pattern I could use to mean "autoquote everything up until the first > or | character. Is this possible with the current ZAQ_PREFIXES list? (It seems like it deals only with prefixes, not with suffixes.)

For the commands I'm trying to auto-quote, I'm fine never being able to autoquote a string containing either of those two characters.

If this is something you've managed to do before I'd be very eager to hear more.

Thanks in advance.

[ianthehenry]

Sadly there is no way to express this in zsh-autoquoter right now.

It is an imminently reasonable thing to ask for and I think it would make for a very good feature to support, but I'm not exactly sure what the API should look like.

But if you were to pretend for a second that zsh-autoquoter could do that, how would you expect it to look? Like, what would you expect to write in your .zshrc in order to configure that?

[jez]

I would be fine with anything. If there was a flag that said “never auto quote shell pipe characters for any command” I’d set it. If I had to have a second variable with command names to never auto quote I’d use it. The API doesn’t matter much to me.

[jez]

For the record, I've been working around this by using true && as a prefix to defeats the patterns that it's looking for when deciding to autoquote.