From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Cc: Allomorphy <allomorphy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: creating a mnemonic for a history command
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 20:11:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7ajwVj7YPDFj552CAT1TnDimQeUmmSd5abSd+0LbwANJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <672456907.1840983.1715954446011@mail.virginmedia.com>
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 7:01 AM Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> > On 17/05/2024 12:03 BST Allomorphy <allomorphy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is one of the most useful incantations for me:
> > !?foo?:%
> >
> > What is an elegant way to set up a mnemonic like say an alias or
> > something else to type
>
> Your best bet is probably to use an editor function [...]
>
> gimme() {
> LBUFFER='!?'$LBUFFER
> RBUFFER='?:%'$RBUFFER
> zle accept-line
> }
This widget not only retrieves the word, but executes it as a command,
which it seems to me unlikely to be the intended effect? I wonder if
the OP would prefer e.g. complete-word instead of accept-line?
Or perhaps (assuming compinit has run) just escape-slash to invoke
_history-complete-older, if that works well enough?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-18 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-17 11:03 Allomorphy
2024-05-17 14:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2024-05-18 3:11 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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