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Re: Issues with history substitution and its documentation


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Issues with history substitution and its documentation
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:22:24 -0500
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On 11/6/19 8:04 AM, Jim Monte wrote:
Regarding the & word modifier, it would be useful to note in the
documentation that it applies the previous substitution whether it had been
successful or not, as shown below.

I don't think there's a need to qualify "previous substitution" here.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/



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