From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: insert-last-word/copy-prev-word/... question
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:57:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020306115738.G1185@lifebits.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020306112257.A16104@cmdline.net>
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:22:57AM +0100, poeml@cmdline.net wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:33:13 +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > Let's assume I have this in the history
> >
> > ls xxx xxx foo
> > ls xxx xxx bar
> > ls yyy zzz baz
> >
> > And I'm typing a new command line:
> >
> > $ ls first second next
> > ^
> > cursor
> >
> > with insert-last word, I can copy "baz", "bar", "foo" to the
> > cursor position. With copy-prev-word I can copy "next". But I'd
> > like to
> >
> > - Call some function multiple times. With the first call I get
> > "next". WIth the second call I get "second" and with the
> > third call I get "first".
> > - The same should work on previous lines in the history: First I
> > call insert-last and get "baz", then I call said function and
> > get "zzz", then I call it again and get "yyy".
> >
> > Is that possible?
>
> How about simply prefixing insert-last with a multiplier, is that what
> you want (not sure if I understand correctly)?
>
> Like "meta-2 meta-." which would give you "zzz" in you example.
Ah, yes. I guess you have to already know what the argument to
insert-last-word does to understand the man page :-) Now, is
there a way to call that with increasing argument values, i.e.
first call = Meta-1 insert-last-word
second call = Meta-2 insert-last-word
third call = Meta-3 insert-last-word
...
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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2002-03-01 14:33 Dominik Vogt
2002-03-06 10:22 ` poeml
2002-03-06 10:57 ` Dominik Vogt [this message]
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