Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell

[Thierry Volpiatto]

"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson
> <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2008-09-14, Francis Moreau wrote:
>>> no this paste the whole command line, I'm asking for the last _argument_
>>
>> (defun last-arg () "" (interactive)
>>  (comint-previous-input 1)
>>  (search-backward " ")
>>  (kill-line)
>>  (comint-next-input 2)
>>  (yank)
>> )
>>
>
> Even though I don't speak (yet) elisp, it does seem that if I call
> last-arg() several times then this yanks always the same arg...
>
> Try in an xterm to use M-. to see what I'm talkng about.

May be what you are looking for...

in M-x shell:
,----
| C-c .  ==>  comint-insert-previous-argument
`----

and with ansi-term ==> the command M-. work
it have the same behavior than in my urxvt

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