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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:24:22 +0100
From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
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Subject: Re: "expanding" to copy-earlier-word
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On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:57:27 +0100
Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> I've bound ctrl-j to copy-earlier-word, so I can copy the last word
> of the previously executed command line to the current command
> line.  Is there a way to do the same as part of the expansion
> process?

Hisotry expansion allows you to select previous words, but you'll need
to count from the left when retrieving words from the current line: you
can use ":$" to indicate the last argument, which with !# is the
previous argument, but "-" indicates a range, not a negative offset.
There was some discussion about this anomaly a couple of months ago;
it's potentially fixable with some new syntax (I've forgotten if there
was a conclusion).

> What I'd like to have this something like this:
> 
>   $ make foo
>   $ ./<copy-earlier-word>

./!:$

> or even
> 
>   $ make foo; ./<copy-earlier-word>

make foo; ./!#:1

(remember history expansion starts with word 0).  Unfortunately !#:$
gets you the ";" because while history expansion knows about dividing
into words it doesn't know which words are syntactically important.

pws