On 12/6/10 8:22 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Yes. In this case, the documentation is less than clear. The count
> argument is actually set by the first call to yank-last-arg, and that
> argument sets the word to extract from the history entry. Subsequent
> calls to yank-last-arg without a different intervening editing command
> use that same count as the argument to extract while moving through the
> history, and any count given to those subsequent calls sets the number
> of history entries to move. A negative count on those calls changes the
> direction.
Sorry, that was partly a future direction. The count to the second and
subsequent calls just changes the direction, not the number of history
entries to skip.
Chet
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