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Re: `eval` pollutes the history when it runs "set -o history"


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: `eval` pollutes the history when it runs "set -o history"
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:07:24 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux)

On Jun 11 2019, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> Maybe. But the user-visible option that says whether or not to save
> commands in the history is decoupled from the internal set of flags that
> control it. The option should remain visibly on unless the user turns it
> off, even if saving commands in the history is temporarily suppressed. The
> thing is that enabling history with `set -o history' turns all of these
> things on.

But should the effect of `set -o history' be deferred until the end of
the temporary suppression?

Andreas.

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