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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:28:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: ...missing one bash-feature
From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: meino.cramer@gmx.de
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On 13 October 2011 06:50,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there is one feature of the bash which I miss in zsh -- may be
> by not knowing it.
>
> Suppose in bash I do the following:
> bash> ls onefile.txt twofile.txt threefile.txt
> bash> rm _____
>
> instead of '_____' I press instead
>
> ALT - 2 ALT .
>
> and get the 'last - 2' argument of the previous command, which is
> 'onefile.txt'
>
> Is there a way to mimic or simulate the same behaviour in zsh or is
> there a even better and even more intuitive way to do so?
>
> Thank you very much in advance for any help!

This is in zsh by default unless you're using vi keybindings. If
you're not doing that on purpose, add bindkey -e to your .zshrc.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson