A small change that made it much easier for me to use ! commands was enabling magic space, which expands the ! macros out when you press space. This made an eno

A small change that made it much easier for me to use ! commands was enabling magic space, which expands the ! macros out when you press space. This made an enormous difference to me, since I could now be sure I wasn't accidentally completing the wrong command or arguments. To enable it, edit your .inputrc (this is part of readline) and add this: $if Bash Space: magic-space $endif