On 8/9/24 2:15 AM, Jess M wrote:
Observed behaviour: ``` $ echo word01 word02 word03 floogle word01 word02 word03 floogle $ echo !?word?% echo word03 word03 $ # I expected to get word01 $ echo $BASH_VERSION 5.2.26(1)-release ```The bash manual for word designators sounds to me as if word01 should be selected.
That's certainly the csh behavior.
Bash has done it this way for as long as its history expansion has been
implemented. It dates back to at least 1988-89. I think the idea (that
was a long time ago) was that it started as a way to perform searching for
readline, and in that case you want the history to basically be treated as
a single long string, in which you search backwards or forwards from the
current location. The csh-style history expansion code inherited that
behavior.
It should not be difficult to provide an option to do it the csh way, but
there's a lot of existing behavior there, so I don't know about making it
the default.
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