Re: trouble porting csh alais

[Chet Ramey]

> The gnu.bash.bug newsgroup seems to be dormant and I can't find an answer to 
> this one by google, so here goes.
> 
> When using csh I have an alias "alias v \!vi"
> This allows me to re-edit the same file I last edited by just typing "v"
> 
> I tried recasting this for bash without success.

You won't have any doing it directly.  History expansion is performed before
alias expansion; even using the correct syntax would result in
`bash: !vi: command not found'.

You can, however, use the `fc' command:

alias v='fc -s vi'

Chet

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