Hit Alt-Up once, it puts the *last* argument of the *previous* command into
the *current* command.
Hit it twice, you get the *2nd last* arg.
Keep hitting it, you cycle through each argument in your command history.
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2015, at 11:32 AM, charlie wrote:
> > I was actually looking for the named one, `!c` executes the last command
> > that begins with the letter c.
>
> Speaking of which, I *still* don't understand what good Alt+Up is in
> fish. I have read the explanation many times to no avail.
>
> I use the up arrow with fish and understand that, I think. Without any
> text entered, it just goes through the history, with text entered it
> filters the history with a substring match on the entered text.
>
> Would someone be willing to give me an example of the utility of Alt+up?
>
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