From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22436 invoked from network); 2 Mar 1998 09:08:33 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 2 Mar 1998 09:08:33 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA20407; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 03:55:01 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 03:54:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199803020856.JAA04732@sgi.ifh.de> To: jmy@flashback.net, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu (Zsh users list) Subject: Re: completion and history In-reply-to: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jimmy_M=E4kel=E4?="'s message of "Sun, 01 Mar 1998 21:12:09 MET." <19980301211209.42475@flashback.net> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 09:56:56 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson Resent-Message-ID: <"LRoE-3.0.C-4.JFd-q"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1358 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > And how do i get the appendhistory thing to work, what have i done wrong: > > % grep HIST .zshrc > HISTSIZE=200 > HISTFILE=.zshistory What you also need and hasn't yet been mentioned is to set SAVEHIST. HISTSIZE specifies the size of the history that will be kept within the shell, SAVEHIST the size that will be saved --- in your case probably 0. SAVEHIST=200 would be a good bet. I feel another FAQ entry coming on. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 50 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Gruppo Teorico, Dipartimento di Fisica Piazza Torricelli 2, 56100 Pisa, Italy