GNU bug report logs - #29821
eshell: Ensure quick substitution only occurs at start of line

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jay Kamat <jaygkamat <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 23:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 29821 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 29821 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jay Kamat <jaygkamat <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#29821: Ensure quick substitution only occurs at start of line
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 10:56:31 +0100

On Dez 31 2017, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Hmm, using history expansion would mean typing
>
>     M-p DEL C-a M-f M-d M-d ! ! : $
>
> to get
>
>     mv !!:$ two.txt

History expansion was invented when command line editing wasn't
available, it typically makes only sense for entering a new command line
(while referencing parts of the previous ones).

Andreas.

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