Re: !!$ unitialized at first prompt

["Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> The shell doesn't split words in the same way when importing history. 
> In normal operation it relies on the lines having been passed through 
> the lexical analyser to generate the words, which doesn't happen when 
> history is read from a file.  Instead it just blindly splits on 
> whitespace.

Interesting.

I'm surprised it splits the history when it's read in.  (I would've 
expected it to read in whole command lines and only split into words 
when necessary.)

But, glad there's a simple explanation.

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Thanks,
Ben