On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Certainly yank-last-arg (M-.,M-_) is useful but don't forget about > yank-nth-arg (M-C-y) which yanks the first argument. Most of the time > that you are doing something like 'edit filename.c &' then you can use > the still quite convenient M-C-y to paste in the filename as the first > argument to the next command.
Cool thanks! Tantalisingly, it also says "nth" arg, but I can't figure out how to give it that "n" (when n != 1). However, it seems I can do this with M-. -- I just prefix an M-1 before the M-. (thought my terminal does get messed up; probably because I have a very complex bash prompt with colors and all...)
