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

[Francis Moreau]

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.

Thanks
-- 
Francis