Re: Keyboard Macro?

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> I much too frequently write the following
> 
> cp _!^ _!$
> 
> Which I'd like to shorten somehow and save my sore pinkies.
> 
> Ideally I'd use an alias but aliases don't know about history commands.
> I guess I could write a script, but what I'd really like is some kind of 
> keyboard macro which would spit out the above if I typed say cpfl (copy first 
> to last)
> 
> Ideas? I'd use Shortkeys but that doesn't work on De-Vista-ted

Maybe:

  bindkey -s '^xC' 'cp _!\^ _!$'

or even:

  bindkey -s '^xC' 'cp _!\^ _!$'$'\n'

Regards, Frank

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