Re: ESC . vs. ^R, ^P again

[jidanni]

A> I think you want ESC _ which will pull in the last word of the
A> previous command.
Thanks but it's
$ man bash|grep M-_
       yank-last-arg (M-., M-_)
       insert-last-argument (M-., M-_)
the same as M-., whose behavior I was railing against.