On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > Sitaram Chamarty wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When the previous command was backgrounded (say "gvim >> filename.c &") and then you try some other command using >> Alt-., it expands to "&" and not "filename.c". >> >> Is this considered a bug? Or correct behaviour that just >> happens to be not useful in this specific case? > > M-. uses the last word from the previous line. If that happens to > be `&', that's what it uses.
ok thanks; I suspected as much (that this was working as intended, and the situation I brought up was an edge case) but appreciate the confirmation.