Honestly, the "when pasting" part seems very much a case of solving the wrong problem there. For my shell, I just had any unquoted ':/' or ':?' mark the word as

Honestly, the "when pasting" part seems very much a case of solving the wrong problem there. For my shell, I just had any unquoted ':/' or ':?' mark the word as a url, causing glob characters (and some others like '&', for obvious[0] reasons) to be implicitly quoted until the end of the word. 0: assuming you've seen a url like http://example.com/foo?bar=1&baz=2 http://example.com/foo?bar=1&baz=2 before