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Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HIST
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Christoph Anton Mitterer |
Subject: |
Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:21:49 +0100 |
On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 16:26 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > And b) it seems kinda ugly that one needs to explicitly set a default
> > value that would be set later anyway.
> Maybe.
Okay, keep me tuned if you should plan to actually do that, cause then I
can revise manually setting it :)
> It is what it is, and it's an effective workaround that you can
> use today.
Sure, thanks for that,...
> > Wasn't it possible to simply set the default for histchars earlier in
> > the startup?
> histchars defaulting is part of the interactive shell setup; environment
> variables are scanned before any other setup so they are available when
> the startup files are read. The interactive shell startup comes after
> the startup files are read so the startup files can set any appropriate
> variables.
One other possibility would be, if HISTTIMEFORMAT is set and histchars
is not, while you read in the .bash_history, assume only there the
default of "#" and ignore these lines.
That way would probably not change the behaviour a lot.
Cheers,
Chris.
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE, (continued)
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE, Christoph Anton Mitterer, 2015/03/25
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE, Chet Ramey, 2015/03/26
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE, Eric Blake, 2015/03/26
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE, Chet Ramey, 2015/03/26
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE, Christoph Anton Mitterer, 2015/03/26
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE, Christoph Anton Mitterer, 2015/03/26
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE, Chet Ramey, 2015/03/27
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE, Chet Ramey, 2015/03/25
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE, Christoph Anton Mitterer, 2015/03/25
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE, Chet Ramey, 2015/03/26
- Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE,
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