Re: the bug mailing lists are open bug reporting lists (Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion)

2007-10-02 Thread The Wanderer
Bob Proulx wrote: The Wanderer wrote: (And yet again. Not that it did a lot of good last time; I *still* got an incorrect private reply, in addition to the public one. Even though it is not an official standard the best ad-hoc standard is to set "Mail-Followup-To: " to instruct mailers where

Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion

2007-10-02 Thread Chet Ramey
The Wanderer wrote: >>> I would be interested to find out, if someone is present who does >>> know. I would also be interested to know the rationale behind the >>> behaviour, given that the only potentially real-world scenario I >>> can think of where this behaviour seems as if it would be useful

Re: the bug mailing lists are open bug reporting lists (Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion)

2007-10-02 Thread Chet Ramey
Bob Proulx wrote: > I saw that you had set Reply-To: back to the mailing list and I do not > know why that reply message did not respect your reply-to header. > For what it is worth I think it should have done so. I changed it. I've been burned in the past (or at least received complaints) when

the bug mailing lists are open bug reporting lists (Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion)

2007-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: > (And yet again. Not that it did a lot of good last time; I *still* got > an incorrect private reply, in addition to the public one. Even though it is not an official standard the best ad-hoc standard is to set "Mail-Followup-To: " to instruct mailers where to send followup me

Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion

2007-10-02 Thread The Wanderer
(And yet again. Not that it did a lot of good last time; I *still* got an incorrect private reply, in addition to the public one. Is there any particular reason why you ignored my explicit request to not get both responses?) Chet Ramey wrote: The Wanderer wrote: (And again.) Bob Proulx wrote:

Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion

2007-10-01 Thread Chet Ramey
The Wanderer wrote: > (And again.) > > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> The Wanderer wrote: >> >>> Quite some time and several varyingly-significant updates of bash >>> ago, I was able to perform history expansion on multi-word >>> commands. >>> >>> At present and for some while now, [!ls /h] instead expan

Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion

2007-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
(And again.) Bob Proulx wrote: The Wanderer wrote: Quite some time and several varyingly-significant updates of bash ago, I was able to perform history expansion on multi-word commands. At present and for some while now, [!ls /h] instead expands to ls /tmp/ /h This is also what csh does i

Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion

2007-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
Reply addresses set by hand to work around broken defaults. (Again.) Paul Jarc wrote: The Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: !ls /h How about: ls /h That works, and explains what exactly that function is supposed to do (I have inadvertently gotten into that mode at various points in the

Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion

2007-09-30 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: > Quite some time and several varyingly-significant updates of bash > ago, I was able to perform history expansion on multi-word commands. > > At present and for some while now, it instead expands to > > ls /tmp/ /h This is also what csh does in this situation too. This type

Re: Multi-word matching in history expansion

2007-09-30 Thread Paul Jarc
The Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > !ls /h How about: ls /h paul