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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
To: rc-owner@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re:  readline & history
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 01:46:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9408130546.AA22028@sulphur.osf.org> (raw)

>With the current version of rc I am not able to use the $history-
>file with the readline-interface (i.e. CTRL-p, CTRL-r, ...).
>The following patch forces rc to add the contents of the file
>to the history list.
>
>any comments?

If you do this then you cannot use the small editline library since
it does not have the using_history() and read_history() functions.

Do you really want to suck your whole history file into your
shell's address space?

Ick.
	/r$


             reply	other threads:[~1994-08-13  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1994-08-13  5:46 Rich Salz [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1994-08-08  9:27 Markus Friedl (CIP 92)

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