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Make swap-quote-keys better

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
zsh
Domain
cli

Research direction

Locate the swap-quote-keys definition and reproduce the reported behavior with both single-line and multi-line input. Compare the current behavior with the alternate zsh snippet in the issue; done means multi-line input uses the alternate handling without duplicate lines for single-line input.

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Description

For some reason I need two ^Qs, and it doesn't work with multi-line editing.

An alternate version like:

  local c LBUFFER=$PREBUFFER$LBUFFER

  for (( c = $#LBUFFER; c > 0; c-- )); do
    if [[ $LBUFFER[c] == \' ]]; then
      LBUFFER[c]=\"
      break
    elif [[ $LBUFFER[c] == \" ]]; then
      LBUFFER[c]=\'
      break
    fi
  done

  print -rz -- $LBUFFER$RBUFFER
  zle send-break

would, but should change that so that it only uses that way if it's multiline, otherwise with single-line input, the send-break causes duplicate lines.

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