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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Unexpected results
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:51:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aiyJxe6i=AtKKO2Rt4j2Qb7n0pBtqqogz8GsrR2QvbMg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1591910550.1867255.1661176876454@mail.virginmedia.com>

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 7:01 AM Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> The :h modifier on history is pretty brutal, yes.  We store the
> full history word internally, but a "history word" is before the
> lexical analyser has got to work, i.e. the raw expression with
> quotes in it.  What you want is that word after it's been
> processed internally.

echo !:1:Q:h:q

perhaps?


  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-22 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-22 13:16 Perry Smith
2022-08-22 14:01 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-08-22 20:51   ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2022-08-22 20:56     ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-08-22 21:07       ` Bart Schaefer

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