On Jan 11, 2008 6:34 PM, Isaac Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> But just doing nothing when I type "sudo !!" is not very friendly. At the
> >> least, it should pop up a message telling me the "fish way" to do it.
> >
> > This is about as complicated as fully implementing "!!".
>
> code complexity, user simplicity: it's a tradeoff, right?
Not exactly. This is one example of a user habit that is actually
inefficient. It's fine for the special cases of "!!", "!$" and "!^",
but in general editing using Bash's substitution mechanism is a
needless mental burden and a risk.
> [...] However, if
> '!!' was a command name then sudo !! would make sense in fish without
> special character interpretation, so just giving a message for !! would
> complain about some correct cases ( ` the backtick is also treated as an
> ordinary character in this silent way, I've noticed, which would have no
> troubles whatsoever if there weren't these habits from other shells).
How about:
function !!
eval (echo $history[2])
end
By the way, I get this behavior with Fish 1.22.1, is it expected?
> function h1; tail -n 1 ~/.config/fish/fish_history; end
> echo -n
> h1
function h1; tail -n 1 ~/.config/fish/fish_history; end
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