Funny thing happened to me ... Beware of "$_" and the shell you run

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <4038 at uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> richard at uhccux.UUCP (Richard Foulk) 
writes:
|>} Normally I run /bin/ksh... so for those ksh people they know what "$_" does.
|>} It basically returns the last argument in the previous command line.  It's
|>} normally used like so...
|>} 
...
|>
|>Looks like another good reason to stick with csh.  !$ is easier to type
|>and it displays the substitution so you know what's going on.
|>
Well I found out in "vi-mode" you can do <ESC>_ and it will do exactly like
the !$ in csh... so ksh is as good ;-)  I'm sure in emacs-mode there is
an equivalent keystroke too..

-Lenny
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