Re: zsh request

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

On Nov 21, 12:57am, Huy Le wrote:
} Subject: zsh request
}
} I have a couple of keybinding requests:
} 
} 1) insert-second-to-last-word (in the same spirit as insert-last word,
} which I use constantly)

I think making insert-last-word read its prefix argument as a word
position would be preferable.  In the current code, insert-last-word
ignores the prefix, so this is a reasonably compatible change.

Drawback:  Word 0 is the command name, but ESC 1 ESC _ must count
from the right to be compatible with the past implementation (zsh is
not able to distinguish the 1 prefix from no prefix at all).  This
means all positive numbers should count from the right; which is OK
because the name is after all insert-last-word, so ESC 2 ESC _ means
insert the second word back from the end.  (Then you use bindkey -s
to put this on a single keystroke; presto, insert-second-last-word.)

So of course negative prefixes count from the left, with the slight
oddity that ESC 0 ESC _ also counts from the left (giving you the
command name).

*** Src/zle_hist.c.0	Sun Jul 28 13:48:29 1996
--- Src/zle_hist.c	Thu Nov 21 02:25:07 1996
***************
*** 483,490 ****
  	feep();
  	return;
      }
!     s = he->text + he->words[2*he->nwords-2];
!     t = he->text + he->words[2*he->nwords-1];
      save = *t;
      *t = '\0';			/* ignore trailing whitespace */
  
--- 483,499 ----
  	feep();
  	return;
      }
!     if (zmult > 0) {
! 	zmult = he->nwords - (zmult - 1);
!     } else {
! 	zmult = 1 - zmult;
!     }
!     if (zmult < 1 || zmult > he->nwords) {
! 	feep();
! 	return;
!     }
!     s = he->text + he->words[2*zmult-2];
!     t = he->text + he->words[2*zmult-1];
      save = *t;
      *t = '\0';			/* ignore trailing whitespace */
  

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