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Re: Very useful !#^

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From: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@xxxxxxxx>
To: Tim Haynes <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Very useful !#^
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:33:36 +0100
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:26:18PM +0100, Tim wrote:
> zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> > cos I keep forgetting this myself
> >
> >> cp verylongfilename.tex   backup_!#^<tab>
> > expands to
> >> cp verylongfilename.tex backup_verylongfilename.tex
> 
> Oh, excellent. I've been wondering for ages if there's such a thing and
> never got around to hunting it.
> 
> A related joy: !$ tab-expands to last word of previous line. Notably this
> has a corresponding keypress, M-. or M-_  Is there a key for !#^ as well?
[...]

See <Ctrl-Alt>_ and <Alt>2<Ctrl-Alt>_

in emacs mode. That's the copy-prev-word widget.

-- 
Stéphane

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