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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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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