Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-arg

Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-arg

[Barman Brakjoller]

Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-arg:

yank-last-arg (M-., M-_)
      Insert  the last argument to the previous command (the last word
      of the  previous  history  entry).   With  an  argument,  behave
      exactly  like  yank-nth-arg.   Successive calls to yank-last-arg
      move back through the history list, inserting the last  argument
      of each line in turn.

Anyone?

Re: Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-rag

[John Wiegley]

brakjoller@hotmail.com (Barman Brakjoller) writes:

> Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-rag:

You can use $_ to refer to the value of the last argument, but no,
there is no way to "yank" the last argument in the way you mentioned.

John

Re: Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-arg

[Kai Großjohann]

brakjoller@hotmail.com (Barman Brakjoller) writes:

> Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-arg:

I use this:

(defun kai-eshell-insert-last-word (n)
  (interactive "p")
  (insert (car (reverse
                (split-string
                 (eshell-previous-input-string (- n 1)))))))

Then I add a hook to bind the above to M-..

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Re: Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-rag

[Barman Brakjoller]

John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> wrote
 
> > Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-rag:
> 
> You can use $_ to refer to the value of the last argument, but no,
> there is no way to "yank" the last argument in the way you mentioned.

Then I suppose I could hack together a new eshell/yank-last-arg. I'll
see what I can come up with.

Re: Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-arg

[Barman Brakjoller]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) wrote

> > Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-arg:
> 
> I use this:
> 
> (defun kai-eshell-insert-last-word (n)
>   (interactive "p")
>   (insert (car (reverse
>                 (split-string
>                  (eshell-previous-input-string (- n 1)))))))
> 
> Then I add a hook to bind the above to M-..

This must be my eshell-lucky day, excellent answers to both my
eshell-problems! Maybe I should go and buy a lottery ticket. :)

Re: Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-rag

[John Wiegley]

brakjoller@hotmail.com (Barman Brakjoller) writes:

> This must be my eshell-lucky day, excellent answers to both my
> eshell-problems! Maybe I should go and buy a lottery ticket. :)

Or send that money my way, to convince me its worthwhile to write a
manual. :)  I think if the community sent $2500 altogether, I would
be convinced.

John

Re: Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-rag

[Romain FRANCOISE]

brakjoller@hotmail.com (Barman Brakjoller) writes:

> Then I suppose I could hack together a new eshell/yank-last-arg. I'll
> see what I can come up with.

There's also em-last.el, an Eshell module that does exactly what the
bash command does (cycle backwards through the arg list, etc).

http://orebokech.com/tmp/em-last.el

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Re: Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-rag

[Barman Brakjoller]

> Or send that money my way, to convince me its worthwhile to write a
> manual. :)  I think if the community sent $2500 altogether, I would
> be convinced.

You mean you are going to extract all docstrings and paste them into
the empty info pages? :)

Re: Does eshell have something similar to bash's yank-last-rag

[John Wiegley]

brakjoller@hotmail.com (Barman Brakjoller) writes:

>> Or send that money my way, to convince me its worthwhile to write
>> a manual. :) I think if the community sent $2500 altogether, I
>> would be convinced.
>
> You mean you are going to extract all docstrings and paste them
> into the empty info pages? :)

Heh, no, that would just be a reference manual.  A real manual
describes what the reader wants to know, not just what the program's
design wants to tell them.

John