something like an alias that could allow me to reuse history expandable expressions, such as !!, !:1, ^cdcd^cddcd and so on Pier Paolo Grassi linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pier-paolo-grassi-19300217 founder: https://www.meetup.com/it-IT/Machine-Learning-TO Il giorno gio 20 feb 2020 alle ore 14:27 Vin Shelton < acs@alumni.princeton.edu> ha scritto: > I still do not understand: what do you want to do? Do you want to create > an alias that modifies the history expansion in some particular way? > > - Vin > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 8:19 AM Pier Paolo Grassi > wrote: > >> Hi Vin, it does not because: >> >> 20-02-20 14:16:45 root@bakeca-vivobook Path: ~ >> : print -z '!!' >> 20-02-20 14:16:47 root@bakeca-vivobook Path: ~ >> : !! >> print -z '!!' >> >> !! is resolved to print -z '!!' >> If I had used it like you did, as !! unquoted, it would not be aliasable, >> so I would incur in my original problem >> thanks >> >> Pier Paolo Grassi >> linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pier-paolo-grassi-19300217 >> founder: https://www.meetup.com/it-IT/Machine-Learning-TO >> >> >> Il giorno gio 20 feb 2020 alle ore 14:06 Vin Shelton < >> acs@alumni.princeton.edu> ha scritto: >> >>> I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Does >>> >>> print -z !! >>> >>> do what you want? Perhaps you want to try out other batch substitutions >>> (e.g. "!:1") before you use "print -z", which enables interactive editing. >>> >>> HTH, >>> Vin >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:46 AM Pier Paolo Grassi >>> wrote: >>> >>>> hello, history expansion is quite the powerful syntax for re-executing >>>> commands from history with various functionalities for automatic >>>> transformation. Since it happens before alias expansion it is not >>>> possibile >>>> to simplify the access to these functionalities though, and one have to >>>> remember and type every time the right syntax, and in case of error you >>>> have to type everything again. >>>> Is that it or am I missing some way to reuse it? >>>> I have just thought of a custom widget that could add to $BUFFER a >>>> history >>>> command of one's choice, are there other ways? >>>> >>>> Pier Paolo Grassi >>>> linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pier-paolo-grassi-19300217 >>>> founder: https://www.meetup.com/it-IT/Machine-Learning-TO >>>> >>>