where history expansion fits in

[Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>]

Somebody ought to answer the question...

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  \fIarithmetic expansion\fP,
  \fIbrace expansion\fP,
  and \fIfilename generation\fP.
! (Where does History expansion fit in here?)
  .SH FILENAME EXPANSION
  Each word is checked to see if it begins with an unquoted ~.
  If it does, then the word up to a / is checked to see if it matches
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  \fIarithmetic expansion\fP,
  \fIbrace expansion\fP,
  and \fIfilename generation\fP.
! \fIHistory expansion\fP is a special case:  it is only performed in
! interactive shells and then only if the \fBNO_BANG_HIST\fP option is
! unset; it takes place while the line is being parsed.  It is described
! last.
  .SH FILENAME EXPANSION
  Each word is checked to see if it begins with an unquoted ~.
  If it does, then the word up to a / is checked to see if it matches
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  form of command history support
  is provided by the
  .B fc
! builtin (see below).
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  form of command history support
  is provided by the
  .B fc
! builtin (see the entry in the \fBzshbuiltins\fP manual).

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