2009/2/9 Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com> > At the risk of being called an oldie, I keep using !-notation since > the early tcsh days. E.g. "!$" or !:2-3. > > You can also use things like > > !less:* > > to fetch the parameters of the latest less command. > > I can't type alt-> because alt-shift is my keyboard language-switching > combination, so I don't know how this compares with good old > bang-notation. > > Other useful stuff: > > ^x^y will replace the first "x" on the previous line by "y". Use a > third "^" after "y" if it contains space. It's actually a short for > "!!:s/x/y/" > > ...
I knew it. I knew there were more of you out there! :) That whole bang/caret substitute-a-pattern-and-then-run thing just scares me though, plus its hard to type. I'll stick with ctrl-r and vi-mode. But interesting... -- Daniel Bush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
