Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 19:12:06 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, allynh@avsi.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh bug? Message-ID: <95Aug9.191217pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Aug 95 17:57:49 PDT." <9508100057.AA17583@cs.weber.edu>
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In message <9508100057.AA17583@cs.weber.edu> Terry Lambert writes:
>> How, exactly, is "!-2*" violating the man page?
>
>Your argument selector begins with a '2'.
Does everyone need man-page-reading lessons? Come on, folks.
My event specification is '-2', as explicitly stated in the man page:
With the current event 13 we can refer to previous events by event number
`!11', relatively as in `!-2' (referring to the same event)
The argument selector follows the event specification:
To select words from an event we can follow the event specification by a
`:' and a designator for the desired words.
And the colon may be omitted for certain special cases:
The `:' separating the event specification from the word designator can
be omitted if the argument selector begins with a `^', `$', `*' `-' or
`%'.
I have been using the "!-2*" syntax for years, and was extremely surprised
when it didn't work under FreeBSD.
Bill
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