From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from postman.osf.org ([130.105.1.152]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24087>; Sat, 13 Aug 1994 01:49:30 -0400 Received: from sulphur.osf.org (sulphur.osf.org [130.105.5.36]) by postman.osf.org (8.6.9/8.6.x) with SMTP id BAA07685; Sat, 13 Aug 1994 01:49:26 -0400 From: Rich Salz Received: by sulphur.osf.org (1.37.109.4/4.7) id AA22028; Sat, 13 Aug 94 01:46:53 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 01:46:53 -0400 Message-Id: <9408130546.AA22028@sulphur.osf.org> To: rc-owner@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: readline & history >With the current version of rc I am not able to use the $history- >file with the readline-interface (i.e. CTRL-p, CTRL-r, ...). >The following patch forces rc to add the contents of the file >to the history list. > >any comments? If you do this then you cannot use the small editline library since it does not have the using_history() and read_history() functions. Do you really want to suck your whole history file into your shell's address space? Ick. /r$