emulate bash's M-. in *shell*

emulate bash's M-. in *shell*

[jidanni]

In bash I can do ESC . which outputs the last line's last item.
How can I do that in emacs *shell*?

Re: emulate bash's M-. in *shell*

[Ian Eure]

On Jun 9, 2009, at 3:35 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> In bash I can do ESC . which outputs the last line's last item.
> How can I do that in emacs *shell*?
Use the !$ event:

ieure!electron:~$ mkdir /tmp/foo
ieure!electron:~$ ls -ld !$
ls -ld /tmp/foo
drwxr-xr-x 2 ieure wheel 68 2009-06-09 22:37 /tmp/foo/
ieure!electron:~$

You can also use !^ for the first argument, or !!:N for the Nth last  
argument. Section 9.3.2 of the bash manual has the full rundown,  
though it's somewhat lacking in practical examples.

  - Ian

Re: emulate bash's M-. in *shell*

[jidanni]

Ian Eure <ian@digg.com> writes:
>> In bash I can do ESC . which outputs the last line's last item.
>> How can I do that in emacs *shell*?
> Use the !$ event:
> You can also use !^ for the first argument, or !!:N for the Nth last

Thanks but being half a century old, M-. is already embedded in my
brain, so I wish to make emacs act like bash in this area.

Furthermore, I turned off all that ! stuff in bash long ago, as maybe
back in csh it was needed, but now with readline, all it did was add
landmines.

But true, M-. is just the measly last argument, the ! stuff gives one
all of them.

Wait,
  C-c . runs the command comint-insert-previous-argument
  ...This command is like `M-.' in bash.

OK, I'll just rebind that. Thanks. Bye.