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

[Drew Adams]

> >>>   4/ There's no readline "yank-last-arg" function which 
> >>>      inserts the last argument to the previous commands
> >>
> >>   C-up
> >
> > really ?
> >
> > could you tell me on which function this is binded ?
> 
>         <C-up> runs the command comint-previous-input

FWIW, if you use Icicles, then `C-c TAB' in any comint (aka shell) mode lets you
cycle past inputs or complete against them (with regexp/substring completion
etc.). And `C-c `' also does these things (but differently).

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