From: Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: zsh-user <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: refering to 2nd from last history parameter?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:59:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHSx_StLcWHRG46HTcOK-O+-HjOUDP6FGEb55PD-00+ET-=ofg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAECNH1RyC2Q-5y3Ynk-F+cJvtRvFPWdvcpDOqXmrJB=uSJCbTQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Peter Stephenson <
p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Then the answer is that you type "\e." to get the h then "\e=" to go
> back to the "g".
An alternative to using copy-earlier-word is to use a numeric arg to get
earlier words with insert-last-word. e.g. \e2\e. will give you the
2nd-to-last word ("g") directly, so you can count from right to left.
..wayne..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-23 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-22 12:18 zzapper
2015-01-22 12:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-22 13:34 ` zzapper
2015-01-23 19:59 ` Wayne Davison [this message]
2015-01-26 12:05 ` zzapper
2015-01-26 12:16 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-26 13:17 ` Axel Beckert
2015-01-26 14:32 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-26 21:30 ` Axel Beckert
2015-01-22 13:40 ` Axel Beckert
2015-01-22 15:52 ` ZyX
2015-01-22 16:09 ` Axel Beckert
2015-01-22 17:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-22 17:51 ` zzapper
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