Expanding history

genecutl

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When I use history shortcuts in the terminal, such as !$ to get the last word of the previous line, those shortcuts do not get expanded in history. I thought that 'set autoexpand' in my cshrc file would do it, but apparently not.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here is an example:

50> touch file_with_very_long_name.txt
51> ll !$
(executes ll file_with_very_long_name.txt)
52> date
53> !51
(repeats command 51. If the history was saved expanded, I would get the equivalent of 'll file_with_very_long_name.txt'. Instead I get 'll date', because command 51 was saved as entered.)

Since I'm very used to expanded history, this keeps throwing me off. Any help would be appreciated.
 
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