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In zsh, you can press tab after something that will get expanded, and it expands in place. I actually use it quite often to check whether the expansion is right.

However, this does not cover the case where an unexpected globbing happens like in this find situation.

That would become unreadable in many cases, like du -sh *

I looked through zshoptions(1) and didn’t see anything like this. However you can turn off globbing entirely with “unsetopt glob”. There are however other expansions that occur outside of globbing, such as parameter substitution.

It might be possible to implement this using zsh’s line editor, but it would take some digging through the man pages to figure this out (or finding a zsh expert). Try zshzle(1).

Yeah this is probably a much more complicated answer than you were looking for.