How to disable zsh substitution/autocomplete with URL and backslashes

Question

I am using zsh with oh-my-zsh on Ubuntu:14.04.

The shell autocompletes escape character with backslash when I paste a URL.

For ex

Answer 1

update 2019-05-12:

new version(> 486fa10) oh-my-zsh have a configuration for this, add DISABLE_MAGIC_FUNCTIONS=true before source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh:

DISABLE_MAGIC_FUNCTIONS=true
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

via: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/commit/486fa1010df847bfd8823b4492623afc7c935709

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Original answer:

This is a bug in zsh 5.1.1 ~ 5.2(current).

The plugin bracketed-paste-magic did not works in the zsh versions.

The issue is here:

• https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/issues/102
• https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/issues/5499
• https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/commit/35517457921c095be1aa6ed948debfbe183b89ac

I suggest you disable bracketed-paste-magic.

Comment these code from oh-my-zsh's ~/.oh-my-zsh/lib/misc.zsh solve the problem:

if [[ $ZSH_VERSION != 5.1.1 ]]; then
  for d in $fpath; do
    if [[ -e "$d/url-quote-magic" ]]; then
      if is-at-least 5.1; then
        autoload -Uz bracketed-paste-magic
        zle -N bracketed-paste bracketed-paste-magic
      fi
      autoload -Uz url-quote-magic
      zle -N self-insert url-quote-magic
      break
    fi
  done
fi

via

Answer 2

show my zsh version

echo $ZSH_VERSION
5.3

open misc.zsh

vim ~/.oh-my-zsh/lib/misc.zsh

you will see the following:

autoload -Uz is-at-least

# *-magic is known buggy in some versions; disable if so
if [[ $DISABLE_MAGIC_FUNCTIONS != true ]]; then
  for d in $fpath; do
    if [[ -e "$d/url-quote-magic" ]]; then
        if is-at-least 5.1; then
            autoload -Uz bracketed-paste-magic
            zle -N bracketed-paste bracketed-paste-magic
        fi
        autoload -Uz url-quote-magic
        zle -N self-insert url-quote-magic
      break
    fi
  done
fi

## jobs
setopt long_list_jobs

env_default 'PAGER' 'less'
env_default 'LESS' '-R'

## super user alias
alias _='sudo'

## more intelligent acking for ubuntu users
if which ack-grep &> /dev/null; then
  alias afind='ack-grep -il'
else
  alias afind='ack -il'
fi

# only define LC_CTYPE if undefined
if [[ -z "$LC_CTYPE" && -z "$LC_ALL" ]]; then
    export LC_CTYPE=${LANG%%:*} # pick the first entry from LANG
fi

# recognize comments
setopt interactivecomments

add the following line at the top of the file

DISABLE_MAGIC_FUNCTIONS=true

Answer 3

I ended up at this answer but still could not understand why pasting a URL was escaping characters like & ? [ ] and causing my curl commands to fail.

The culprit (for me) was iTerm2 on Mac.

To disable the behavior, go into iTerm2 > Preferences > Profiles > Terminal and UNCHECK Terminal may enable paste bracketing.

Make sure you do this for the correct profile.

Answer 4

If the URL is not quoted, the backslashes may be necessary, that's why zsh adds them (via url-quote-magic). If you do not like them, then quote the URL:

$ wget '

then paste the URL and type the ending quote:

$ wget 'http://{DEFAULT_IP}/index.html'

To disable the url-quote-magic feature entirely:

zstyle ':urlglobber' url-other-schema

EDIT: As of version 5.1, zsh supports bracketed paste in some terminals, in which case url-quote-magic is no longer involved (bracketed-paste-magic replaces it for pastes).