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How to do history expansion on a string?

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From: vapnik spaknik <vapniks@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: How to do history expansion on a string?
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:29 +0000 (UTC)
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Is it possible to expand a bang pattern stored in a string? (e.g. "!123:2").
If so how? I've tried the zpty and zsocket modules to no avail.
I want to make a convenience function for selecting bangs using fzf so I don't have to look up the syntax when I occasionally use them (I've already made one for globs & one for parameter expansions).

Regards,
Joe Bloggs.

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