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Re: can't just hold down ^K to clean up history
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: can't just hold down ^K to clean up history |
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Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:43:38 -0400 |
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:53:27PM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> We use ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P... to finally get to the top of the mess.
... why would you do that? Also, how is this a bug?
> Then we must use ^K^N^K^N^K^N^K^N^K^N^K^N... to clean it up.
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> However this leaves many blank lines in history!
Why not just edit the history FILE after you've exited the shell (or
issued a "history -a" command, or something)? Then you can use whatever
editing method is most convenient.