suppressing shell history expansion in comint-previous-input

suppressing shell history expansion in comint-previous-input

[Sean McLaughlin]

Hello,

  I'm using ocaml and often type strings like "!a;;" into comint.  When 
I do a comint-previous-input, instead of the expected "!a;;", I get "awk 
" or some other command I typed in some time ago.  I believe what is 
happening is that the shell expects the exclamation mark to be asking 
for a history expansion.  I want to suppress this behavior but can't 
figure out how to do it.  Any thoughts?

Best,

Sean

Re: suppressing shell history expansion in comint-previous-input

[Johan Bockgård]

Sean McLaughlin <seanmcl@cs.nyu.edu> writes:

> I'm using ocaml and often type strings like "!a;;" into comint. When
> I do a comint-previous-input, instead of the expected "!a;;", I get
> "awk " or some other command I typed in some time ago. I believe
> what is happening is that the shell expects the exclamation mark to
> be asking for a history expansion. I want to suppress this behavior
> but can't figure out how to do it. Any thoughts?

Set comint-input-autoexpand to nil.

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