Useful csh alias and free csh bug

[Jerry Peek]

In article <2592 at garfield.UUCP> andrew at garfield.UUCP (Andrew Draskoy) writes:
> Here is a useful csh alias which I use to edit my last command.
> I'm posting it here since others have told me that they have also
> found it useful.
> 
> alias ec source ~/bin/ec
> where ~/bin/ec contains:
> 
> echo !-1:q > /tmp/ec$$
> $EDITOR /tmp/ec$$
> cat /tmp/ec$$
> eval `cat /tmp/ec$$`
> rm /tmp/ec$$

The first line of "ec", !-1:q, referred to the ec command *itself*,
instead of the previous command... it should look like this instead:

	echo !-2:q > /tmp/ec$$

Otherwise, "ec" works great.

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