Re: Can I refer to last but one parameter?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Can I refer to last but one parameter?
> 
> e.g.
> 
> vi !$-1  ## wrong does not work

You have to count from the start of the line and used !:<argnum>.

"-" refers exclusively to ranges, even if one of the arguments is missing,
so for example !:-1 means the range of words 0 (the command word) and 1,
while !:$-1 is the not very useful range from the last to the the first
argument.

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