From b0fde52d53c039af943336268e9e2b2d485fac0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:29:38 +0000
Subject: 26744: completion of history modifiers in normal command line
 arguments

---
 Completion/Base/Core/_normal | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Completion/Base')

diff --git a/Completion/Base/Core/_normal b/Completion/Base/Core/_normal
index 36ecb225d..6bdb8f09b 100644
--- a/Completion/Base/Core/_normal
+++ b/Completion/Base/Core/_normal
@@ -9,6 +9,19 @@ else
   _compskip=''
 fi
 
+# Check for a history reference to complete modifiers.
+# $PREFIX has a quoted form of the !, so we can't test that
+# (it might the start of a real argument), but words has the
+# raw McCoy.
+if [[ -o BANG_HIST && $words[CURRENT] = \!*: && -z $compstate[quote] ]]; then
+  # This looks like a real history expansion; in that case
+  # we'd better put the !'s back the way pfalstad intended.
+  PREFIX=${PREFIX//\\!/!}
+  compset -P '*:'
+  _history_modifiers h
+  return
+fi
+
 # Completing in command position?
 
 if [[ CURRENT -eq 1 ]]; then
-- 
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