terminal - Work-around for PyCharm not supporting "ALT ." up to now

Question

I love "ALT ." to re-use the last argument of the previous command on the linux command line.

Unfortunately PyCharm's terminal does not support this feature: IDEA-155783

Since JetBrains ignores this issue since five years, I think it is time to look for a work-around.

Is there a way to get "ALT ." working in PyCharm's Terminal?

Environment: Ubuntu 20.04

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65951037/work-around-for-pycharm-not-supporting-alt-up-to-now

Answer 1

It's not quite the same, but if you're using the default bash shell, you can use either $_ or !$

In pycharm's terminal window:

$ ls /dev/null
/dev/null
$ echo "stackoverflow" > !$
echo "stackoverflow" > /dev/null

Bash has a ton of built-in history recall features: https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.html#History-Interaction

I'm sure most other shells do as well.