Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > Hello, > > When the previous command was backgrounded (say "gvim > filename.c &") and then you try some other command using > Alt-., it expands to "&" and not "filename.c". > > Is this considered a bug? Or correct behaviour that just > happens to be not useful in this specific case?
M-. uses the last word from the previous line. If that happens to be `&', that's what it uses. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/