I'm not sure I understand what you mean.  Does

print -z !!

do what you want?  Perhaps you want to try out other batch substitutions
(e.g. "!:1") before you use "print -z", which enables interactive editing.

HTH,
  Vin

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:46 AM Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@gmail.com>
wrote:

> hello, history expansion is quite the powerful syntax for re-executing
> commands from history with various functionalities for automatic
> transformation. Since it happens before alias expansion it is not possibile
> to simplify the access to these functionalities though, and one have to
> remember and type every time the right syntax, and in case of error you
> have to type everything again.
> Is that it or am I missing some way to reuse it?
> I have just thought of a custom widget that could add to $BUFFER a history
> command of one's choice, are there other ways?
>
> Pier Paolo Grassi
> linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pier-paolo-grassi-19300217
> founder: https://www.meetup.com/it-IT/Machine-Learning-TO
>