On 11/4/19 9:42 AM, Jim Monte wrote:
Related to the issues with the ? event designator, the %word designator substitutes the *first* word matched by the ? event designator or nothing if the match begins with a space. These details are not documented.
Thanks. The issue is that, unlike csh, bash allows substring matches to span `words'. This leads to issues when the matching portion does not begin on a word character. If the match begins on a non-word, how do you substitute a word there? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/