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Alt + .

2005/01/26 filed under /linux

I'll just drop this little info here, so I don't have to figure it out everytime I'm on a new machine again.

Joffie put this little snippet of info on his hints page. To use "alt + ." in a xterm, add this to .Xdefaults

xterm*eightBitInput: false

And / or put the following in /etc/inputrc:

set convert-meta on
Posted by: B10m | permanent link | comments (2)

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B10m wrote at 2005-01-28 13:35:

It's more a note-to-self type of entry. But ok, in an xterm, when pressing Alt+., the last argument is returned. So, for example, when your previous command was 


less /var/log/somelog

and your next command will be:


sed -e 's/some/thing/i' /var/log/somelog

You could just type: sed -e 's/some/thing/i' [ALT]+.

BOK wrote at 2005-01-27 23:29:

Call me stupid, but I don't think a lot of (l)users will know what teh EXACT USE of alt + . will do...

Please share it.

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