Re[2]: history -a misbehaves with $HISTSIZE

[Айрат Васбикарамов]

> It's in the devel branch. Try it and see if it does what you want.

Yes, it does. Thanks!


>Пятница,  1 марта 2019, 19:44 +03:00 от Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>:
>
>On 2/28/19 5:53 PM, Айрат Васбикарамов wrote:
>>> It seems like what you want is min(history_lines_this_session, 
>>> history_offset),
>>> kind of like what you say below. Try the attached patch and see if it
>>> does what you want.
>> 
>> Yes, that's what I mean.
>> 
>>> I don't think this would happen too much in practice, though, because if
>>> you wait until you have more than $HISTSIZE history entries, you'll lose
>>> information no matter what you use.
>> 
>> I don't think that happens frequent either. But it's possible. Someone set 
>> HISTSIZE to 1000 as he don't care about too old commands and it's happened 
>> that he typed more than 1000 command. Then he run "history -a" to 
>> synchronize current history with another started bash for example. And lost 
>> recent commands. Possibly he notice it. But may not.
>> 
>> Anyway I don't see downsides of this behavior comparing to current. And it 
>> seems more intuitive to me. So should it be default?
>
>It's in the devel branch. Try it and see if it does what you want.
>
>Chet
>
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