Yet Another Terminal Emulator thread

[Kresimir]

zsh is awesome, it is the best shell ever. You can’t learn in a single lifetime everything you can do with it and to what extreme you can customise it. A small example:

[Tip] Better URL pasting in ZSH

Problem If one uses Bash as one’s shell, and wants to, for example, download a Youtube video using youtube-dl, a command like this will be sufficient: youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Ua4UFsmzE However, if one uses ZSH, the question mark character in the URL may be a problem, because of ZSH’s extended globbing. In this case, one normally has to put quotation marks around URLs like this: youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Ua4UFsmzE" or escape special characters, like th…