• sping@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    Fewer keystrokes, more features, and the ability to see what you’re about to do explicitly. How does that make it the poor man’s option?

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      3 months ago

      Seems like it’s terminal-emulator-specific rather than a built-in shell feature

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        3 months ago

        No, it’s a shell feature. Terminal emulators don’t even know what shell are running typically, and I haven’t heard of them adding shell features. That would require the terminal emulator knowing you’re using bash, knowing how to interrogate history etc…

        From man bash:

               yank-last-arg (M-., M-_)
                      Insert  the last argument to the previous command (the last word
                      of the previous history entry).  With a numeric argument, behave
                      exactly  like  yank-nth-arg.   Successive calls to yank-last-arg
                      move back through the history list, inserting the last word  (or
                      the  word  specified  by the argument to the first call) of each
                      line in turn.  Any numeric argument supplied to these successive
                      calls  determines  the direction to move through the history.  A
                      negative argument switches the  direction  through  the  history
                      (back or forward).  The history expansion facilities are used to
                      extract the last word, as if the "!$" history expansion had been
                      specified.
        
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          3 months ago

          Neat! Other replies saying it doesn’t work on their machine, I’ll have to try it out in a few different environments.