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From: thewalt@RITZ.ce.cmu.edu (Chris Thewalt)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: history bug, and suggestions
Message-ID: <THEWALT.89Nov11124002@RITZ.ce.cmu.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 89 17:40:02 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
	Pittsburgh, PA
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First an apparent bug (1.04 on Microvax II, Ultrix 2.2). The !*
history mechanism expands to the zero'th word if the previous line was a
single word. It should expand to the null string in that case.

Suggestions:
1) add a prompt string code similar to \w that just includes the basename
   of the current directory (the last part after the final /).

2) provide a mechanism to rebind keys on the fly, .inputrc is nice but I
   would like to able to do this from the shell.

Chris (thewalt@ce.cmu.edu)
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