Re: Refereing to elements in current command line

[Drew Perttula <drewp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

zzapper wrote:
> Hi
> Sorry if this is an old chestnut
>
> I often type somethig like
>
> > cp fredjoesid.php danjoesid.php
>
> At Present I use i a binding Control-O to do
>
> > cp fredjoesid.php fredjoesid.php
> end then vi edit
>
> But how else can I do this?

perhaps with !#

  cp fredjoesid.php !#$:s/fred/dan

then tab to check that the last argument expands the way you want