AFAIK this is not possible with fish, as variables cannot be used as commands like in bash (and the ! history feature does not exist in fish, it is designed to

AFAIK this is not possible with fish, as variables cannot be used as commands like in bash (and the ! history feature does not exist in fish, it is designed to be fully interactive). See http://fishshell.com/user_doc/faq.html#faq-history http://fishshell.com/user_doc/faq.html#faq-history