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  Re: Issues with history substitution and its documentation Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2019-11-18 11:14 -0500

#15604 — Re: Issues with history substitution and its documentation

On 11/3/19 9:18 AM, Jim Monte wrote:
> Two more documentation issues I have found are below.
> 
> It appears that an empty substring event designator uses the string of the
> previous substring event designator if none is provided and does not find
> the event if there is no previous string.

Thanks for the report. I'll add text documenting the behavior. (FWIW, csh
doesn't document it, either.)


> An empty "old" string in a substitute word modifier uses the previous "old"
> if none is given, but uses an empty string if new is empty. If there was no
> previous "old" string, an error is reported.

As I said in a previous message, this is documented in the man page but
omitted in the texinfo manual.


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