Re: [Help-bash] Asking about feature: repeat last autocompletion.

[Andy Chu]

It's not clear from your message, but another option may be to just
use a variable:

x='long filename<TAB> ...

echo "$x" "$x"  # use the same name twice without typing it twice

Andy


On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 10:39 AM Andy Chu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Have you tried history substitution?
>
> $ echo 'a b' 'c d' 'e f'
> a b c d e f
>
> Retrieve a numbered word from the last command line:
>
> $ echo !!:2 !!:1
> echo 'c d' 'a b'
> c d a b
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Word-Designators.html#Word-Designators
>
> Although I suppose it wouldn't surprise me if there were issue
> relating to picking the correct word out and accounting for Unicode...
>
> Andy
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 10:19 AM David Weeks <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm wondering if there is a bash feature that will repeat the last
> > autocompleted field.  I've been having to rename some file names
> > manually, due to absurd control and unicode characters, and use
> > autocomplete to enter the majority of the filename.  If we had a feature
> > that would repeat the last autocompleted entry, I would not have to type
> > the same thing twice.
> >
> > These filenames can be long, and they are full of troublesome
> > characters, like unicode, which I cannot type without knowing the code
> > point(s), so repeating the name, I then fix the "naughty bits."
> >
> > If there isn't such a feature, I'll submit a bug/request for it. It
> > would be a real time saver to have a way to repeat the last
> > autocompleted entry, without retyping it.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > David Weeks
> > Information Developer
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> >
> >