Re: help adding some features to 5.1

[Ananth Chellappa]

Thanks Sincerely Chet.

I hope I can make a genuine contribution at some point.

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 12:27 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 8/31/21 6:38 PM, Ananth Chellappa wrote:
> > Hi Team,
> >        Could I get some help locating portions of the code that would
> need
> > to be tweaked to add these features?
> >
> > If I had the time, I would love to get to know the code, but I have too
> > much going on in my real job.
> >
> > 1. Intelligent support for !$ (and related - like !2$, !-N, etc) : This
> > means - ignore the & at the end of the previous command.
>
> This is part of the history library: lib/readline/histexpand.c. Keep in
> mind that history expansion has never worked like this, so "intelligent"
> is subjective.
>
> > 2. Autocomplete for !$ (and related tokens) : This means - if I have
> typed
> > !$ and now press TAB, I want the last word from the previous command
> > substituted on the command-line immediately.
>
> This is part of bash-specific word completion: bashline.c.
>
>
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