Re: trivial problem with histverify

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> I have this command bound to PgUp:
>
>      history 1 | grep --color=auto "[[:digit:]]  !!"
>
> ... it does the obvious thing, I type a string I want to search for in
> history and get
> a nice colored listing.  When recalling a command from history with '!', I
> like to
> have 'setopt histverify' in case I want to edit the command, or just be sure
> I'm
> going to execute the correct command before it fires.  However, if that
> option is
> set, it fouls up the above keybinding in the predictable way, it demands
> ENTER
> before it will work. It seems on the face of it that 'histverify' is not
> being very
> smart about that, because the key binding isn't executing a command, it's
> just making a listing.  It seems as if the test for 'histverify' is just
> seeing the
> literal bangs in the key binding and not figuring out that there is really
> no command
> being executed.  Is this really what we want?  If so, is there a simple
> work-around?
> As it is, I just leave 'histverify' off, and try to be careful, so it's
> hardly important,
> but I would  like to have it both ways if possible.

If histverify is set or not doesn't change the fact that !! in your
command will expand as normal. If you want to suppress history
expansion you either have to disable the banghist option, or quote the
history character (!). Long story short is: '[[:digit:]] !!' will do
what you want (double quotes do not stop history expansion).

-- 
Mikael Magnusson