Package: zsh-beta
Version: 4.3.9-dev-1+20090301-1
Severity: wishlist

I tried to show off zsh to a sceptic today and had to find out the
hard way that it does not (yet) provide completion for history
expansion modifiers, e.g.

  echo !$:<TAB>

should list

  h  Remove a trailing pathname component, leaving the head.  This works like 
‘dirname’.
  r  Remove a filename extension of the form ‘.xxx’, leaving the root name.
  e  Remove all but the extension.
  t  Remove all leading pathname components, leaving the tail.  This works like 
 ‘basename’.
  p  Print the new command but do not execute it.  Only works with history 
expansion.
  q  Quote the substituted words, escaping further substitutions.  Works with 
history expan‐
    sion and parameter expansion, though for parameters it is only useful if 
the  resulting
    text is to be re-evaluated such as by eval.
  Q  Remove one level of quotes from the substituted words.
  x  Like q, but break into words at whitespace.  Does not work with parameter 
expansion.
  l  Convert the words to all lowercase.
  u  Convert the words to all uppercase.

etc.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages zsh-beta depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.9-4          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2                   2.16-2         support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libncursesw5              5.7+20090228-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  passwd                    1:4.1.1-6      change and administer password and

Versions of packages zsh-beta recommends:
ii  libc6                         2.9-4      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpcre3                      7.8-2      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi

Versions of packages zsh-beta suggests:
pn  zsh-beta-doc                  <none>     (no description available)

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