You can configure what gets quoted using url-metas: zstyle ':url-quote-magic:*' url-metas '*?[]^()~#{}=$' Not sure about bash, I thought I remembered seei

You can configure what gets quoted using url-metas: zstyle ':url-quote-magic:*' url-metas '*?[]^()~#{}=$' Not sure about bash, I thought I remembered seeing something similar for it but a quick google doesn't turn up anything.