Re: history expansion

Ray Andrews <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:51:12 -0700
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On 2026-07-12 06:36, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> I use history substitution all the time. I'm occasionally annoyed by 
> the need to extra-quote exclamation points, but not enough to give up 
> the feature, which you can always turn off with *unsetopt banghist*.
Of all the impenetrable mysteries in zsh the most inscrutable is 
completion.  There must be, what? a dozen options all chewing on the 
same bone.  My  zshrc has settings imported from somewhere and taken on 
faith, I'm afraid to tinker because you can break something that's only 
going to show up when the moon is full and then you forgot what you 
changed and can't fix it.  I often wonder if some philanthropist at some 
time or other wrote a 'complete guide to completion' so that one might 
confidently know how to control all that.  As usual the power is awesome 
but the skill to use it is hard to obtain.



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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2026-07-12 06:36, Mark J. Reed
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      <div dir="ltr">I use history substitution all the time. I'm
        occasionally annoyed by the need to extra-quote exclamation
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        always turn off with <b>unsetopt banghist</b>.</div>
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    Of all the impenetrable mysteries in zsh the most inscrutable is
    completion.  There must be, what? a dozen options all chewing on the
    same bone.  My  zshrc has settings imported from somewhere and taken
    on faith, I'm afraid to tinker because you can break something
    that's only going to show up when the moon is full and then you
    forgot what you changed and can't fix it.  I often wonder if some
    philanthropist at some time or other wrote a 'complete guide to
    completion' so that one might confidently know how to control all
    that.  As usual the power is awesome but the skill to use it is hard
    to obtain.<br>
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