Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.19222.1221417839.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson
> > <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 2008-09-12, Francis Moreau wrote:
> >> ...
> >>>   4/ There's no readline "yank-last-arg" function which inserts the last
> >>>       argument to the previous commands
> >>
> >>   C-up
> >>
> >
> > really ?
> >
> > could you tell me on which function this is binded ?
> 
> <C-up> runs the command comint-previous-input

But that yanks the whole command line, not just the last argument.

I still the shell's history features for !$ and !*.  The nice thing is 
that Emacs recognizes them and substitutes them into its history list, 
so that if I use commands like C-up it will yank them with the 
appropriate values.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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