Qutebrowser: !$ for commandline

[benedikt-bartscher]

I would love to see !$ working like in bash. I always find myself typing this in the qutebrowser command line...

[emanuele6]

You mean something like:
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:set colors.completion.category.fg red
:set colors.contextmenu.menu.fg !$

The second command is equivalent to :set colors.contextmenu.menu.fg red.

:help :open
:!$ -t github.com

The second command is equivalent to ::open -t github.com (:open -t github.com).
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I don't like the idea of this personally.
It would be annoying more than useful and I don't find it very useful anyway for qutebrowser commands.

For example, this command would be annoying:

:open how does !$ work in bash?

..to allow making these searches, qutebrowser would need to provide a way to "escape" !$.

A single character version of !$ (e.g. ^) would probably be simpler to implement, but, still, I find it not very useful and a bit annoying and out of place in the context of qutebrowser command syntax.

Can you show me an example of a situation where you find yourself wanting to use this?

[mschilli87]

I bash one would not start a command by typing a colon (:). Qutebrowser is modeled after vi(m), not bash.
Try this in vim:

:syntax koehler

E410: Invalid :syntax subcommand: koehler

Oh! I meant the color scheme for hightlighting, not the syntax language!

:colorscheme !$

E185: Cannot find color scheme '!$'

So I would say vim doesn't do it, qutebrowser shouldn't do it.
Mainly because it of corner cases like pointed out by @emanuele6 in which I suspect most people would be surprised bash-like behaviour.

Also I honestly do not see that many use cases in either vim nor qutebrowser for this behaviour.

Finally, let's consider a world where I am convinced this makes sense: I'd then expect !! to work as well. And !-42. And !?foo?. And most importantly ^foo^bar^. Heck, why not !-2:s/foo/bar/p as well? :wink:
And once you have all the history completion going I will be surprised that Ctrl-R does not work 'as expected' (now), etc.
I know how I expect a vim-like browser to behave. If I wanted a bash-like browser, I'd be looking elsewhere. :wink:

[The-Compiler]

I agree this probably isn't needed - I'm closing this for now, but if you have some more rationale on why this would be useful, @benedikt-bartscher, I might reconsider.