Hi,
Axel wrote:
>
> I typed the "!!" not right after the colon (where the repetition would
> make sense - if we compare this with bash's behaviour) but in the
> middle of a command line - which starts with "!start" in this case.
> Here only two successive "!"s were entered (no colon before the
> first).
>
> I'd consider this - at least - unwanted behavior.
typing !! immediately after the colon repeats the last external command
(see ":help :!!"). Your use case is covered by ":help :!", which starts
wit
| Execute {cmd} with the shell. See also the 'shell'
| and 'shelltype' option.
| Any '!' in {cmd} is replaced with the previous
| external command (see also 'cpoptions'). But not when
| there is a backslash before the '!', then that
| backslash is removed. Example: ":!ls" followed by
| ":!echo ! \! \\!" executes "echo ls ! \!".
According to this, the last line in
:!start
:!start !!
should be expanded to
:!start startstart
And so it does for me. But I cannot reproduce the result you intially
provided. Can you tell us the commands you actually used?
Regards,
Jürgen
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