On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 davidson wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 Max Nikulin wrote:On 18/04/2023 21:19, Vincent Lefevre wrote:BTW, history expansion can be very useful, but IMHO, this should have been interactive and triggered by control characters or escape sequences, not by "normal" characters.It would be great. Unfortunately disabling histexpand option in bash blocks the M-^ shortcut as well.shopt -s histverify allows at least to confirm that expansion result is expected.There is also the 'p' (print) word designator, that prints the
Sorry. Not a "word designator", but a "modifier". (Modifiers follow word designator, if any).
expansion but does not execute it. Used like so: $ !.:p # See what the history expansion for 'dot' is . .bash_functions/manterm This places the expansion in history as last command, so up-arrow + return will now execute it.
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