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From: Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: alias vl="vi !$"
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:05:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040311190553.GA12542@blorf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1040311171735.ZM20352@candle.brasslantern.com>

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:17:35PM +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Inside a function, however, $_ has already been changed to be the last
> word of the _currently executing_ command, the same as as $argv[-1].

But it's not changed in an alias, so the simplest approach would appear
to be:

    alias vl='vi $_'

That works for me.

..wayne..


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-11 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-11  8:59 zzapper
2004-03-11  9:10 ` James Devenish
2004-03-11 12:26   ` zzapper
2004-03-11 12:33     ` Peter Stephenson
2004-03-11 12:40       ` zzapper
2004-03-11 12:55         ` Thomas Köhler
2004-03-11 13:23 ` zzapper
2004-03-11 17:17   ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-11 17:58     ` $_ and compatibility Danek Duvall
2004-03-11 19:05     ` Wayne Davison [this message]
2004-03-11 20:13       ` alias vl="vi !$" zzapper
2004-03-11 23:45         ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-03-14 16:27     ` Peter Stephenson

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