Comments on: Remembrance of Things Past http://markelikalderon.com/2008/05/31/remembrance-of-things-past/ Philosophy and Text Fri, 20 May 2011 16:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Mark Eli Kalderon http://markelikalderon.com/2008/05/31/remembrance-of-things-past/comment-page-1/#comment-3995 Mark Eli Kalderon Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:22:14 +0000 http://markelikalderon.com/?p=404#comment-3995 <p>Thanks Dr Drang!</p> <p>If you like !*, there is also !some_string, that executes the last command that begins with some_string. That can be dangerous, so there is also !some_string:p that will print the last command that begins with some_string.</p> Thanks Dr Drang!

If you like !*, there is also !some_string, that executes the last command that begins with some_string. That can be dangerous, so there is also !some_string:p that will print the last command that begins with some_string.

]]> By: drdrang http://markelikalderon.com/2008/05/31/remembrance-of-things-past/comment-page-1/#comment-3993 drdrang Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:20:11 +0000 http://markelikalderon.com/?p=404#comment-3993 <p>The last argument can also be accessed with Esc-. (escape, then period--not at the same time). Repeating the Esc-. sequence moves you back to earlier arguments; it's like the uparrow key, but for arguments only.</p> <p>Real Emacs users will refer to this as Meta-. and you may see references to the Meta key in bash literature. But since no key on the Mac maps to Meta, the Escape key works fine. For example, Esc-b moves you back one work on the command line, Esc-f moves one word forward.</p> <p>I didn't know about !*--I'll try to commit it to memory.</p> The last argument can also be accessed with Esc-. (escape, then period–not at the same time). Repeating the Esc-. sequence moves you back to earlier arguments; it’s like the uparrow key, but for arguments only.

Real Emacs users will refer to this as Meta-. and you may see references to the Meta key in bash literature. But since no key on the Mac maps to Meta, the Escape key works fine. For example, Esc-b moves you back one work on the command line, Esc-f moves one word forward.

I didn’t know about !*–I’ll try to commit it to memory.

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