Alt-dot not working in Ubuntu 10.10 - workaround
In Gnome Terminal in my installation of Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), the trusty old alt + "." does not work anymore. It usually prints the last argument used in bash, but now it just prints a dot ".".
Workaround seems to be to use Esc + "." instead, does the same thing. But it works.
Found it here:
Equivalent/Alternatives for Alt+Dot in Mac
One thing i miss from the Linux shell is the Alt+Dot shortcut. What it does is insert the last argument of the previous command. It appears to be a trivial technique, but it's really useful.