Re: insert-last-word/copy-prev-word/... question

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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:33:13 +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> Let's assume I have this in the history
> 
>   ls xxx xxx foo
>   ls xxx xxx bar
>   ls yyy zzz baz
> 
> And I'm typing a new command line:
> 
>   $ ls first second next 
>                          ^
>                          cursor
> 
> with insert-last word, I can copy "baz", "bar", "foo" to the
> cursor position.  With copy-prev-word I can copy "next".  But I'd
> like to
> 
>  - Call some function multiple times.  With the first call I get
>    "next".  WIth the second call I get "second" and with the
>    third call I get "first".
>  - The same should work on previous lines in the history:  First I
>    call insert-last and get "baz", then I call said function and
>    get "zzz", then I call it again and get "yyy".
> 
> Is that possible?

How about simply prefixing insert-last with a multiplier, is that what
you want (not sure if I understand correctly)? 

Like "meta-2 meta-." which would give you "zzz" in you example. 

Peter
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