From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11160 invoked by alias); 22 Jan 2015 16:09:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 19767 Received: (qmail 17119 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2015 16:09:32 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:09:25 +0100 From: Axel Beckert To: "zsh-users@zsh.org" Subject: Re: refering to 2nd from last history parameter? Message-ID: <20150122160924.GY26664@sym.noone.org> Mail-Followup-To: "zsh-users@zsh.org" References: <20150122134016.GV26664@sym.noone.org> <3006201421941921@web23g.yandex.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3006201421941921@web23g.yandex.ru> X-Operating-System: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 X-Machine: sym2 x86_64 X-Editor: GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Face: 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 Organization: DeuxChevaux.org -- The =?iso-8859-1?Q?Citr?= =?iso-8859-1?B?b+tu?= 2CV Database User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Hi, On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 06:52:01PM +0300, ZyX wrote: > > I would have expected that using negativ numbers would work (with > > CSH_JUNKIE_HISTORY enabled of course): > > > >   % echo !:-2 > > > > But this actually seems an abbreviation for > > > >   % echo !:0-2 > > > > despite this is not documented in the man page. (I may come up with a > > documentation patch for that later.) > > It is documented:“x-y A range of words; x *defaults to 0*.” Thanks for the heads up. I actually expected (and looked for) a literal mention of "-x". > > I wonder what would be a good syntax for such a feature as "-n" > > seems already taken. Maybe something " > > >   % echo !:<2 > > > > (And would we count from 0 or from 1, i.e. would "!:<0" or "!:<1" be a > > synonym for "!:$"? :-) > > I would say that `!:<1` resulting in a second word counted from the end is rather unexpected. Yeah, well, depends. :-) Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | abe@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html | abe@noone.org (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://abe.noone.org/ (Web)