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Subject: Re: subsitutions and beginning of lines.
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On 10/11/2015 07:26 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> You could avoid parsing the line numbers (and unescaping the commands) 
> altogether by accessing the history differently: 

> % print -r - $history[1004] echo foo 

I could never get that to work with anything besides a single 
subscript.  I'd expect it
to drive like any other array but nothing seems to work:

     print -lr - $history[-5,-1]

... and the point of what I'm doing is to show a range.