Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When the previous command was backgrounded (say "gvim
> filename.c &") and then you try some other command using
> Alt-., it expands to "&" and not "filename.c".
>
> Is this considered a bug? Or correct behaviour that just
> happens to be not useful in this specific case?
M-. uses the last word from the previous line. If that happens to
be `&', that's what it uses.
Chet
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