From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17476 invoked from network); 13 May 2000 08:42:48 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 13 May 2000 08:42:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 15649 invoked by alias); 13 May 2000 08:42:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 3060 Received: (qmail 15637 invoked from network); 13 May 2000 08:42:28 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:58:50 +0200 From: Eric Smith To: zsh users Subject: confused by history Message-ID: <20000512205850.A8610@fruitcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1us I like lots of history as in ... what was that command I typed two years ago mmm... ^-R and its back ;) Problem is that I cannot seem to grow my history file - as you can see by the grep -i from my zshrc I am quite ambitous. I often toggle setting and go wc -l $HISTFILE but get no more that 500 or up to 1000 if lucky - what could be keeping the file small? grep -i /etc/zshrc: set INC_APPEND_HISTORY set SHARE_HISTORY export HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history export HISTSIZE=10000 export HISTFILESIZE=10000 export SAVEHIST=10000 setopt append_history \ bang_hist \ hist_allow_clobber \ hist_expire_dups_first \ hist_ignore_all_dups \ histignoredups \ inc_append_history \ hist_ignore_dups \ extendedhistory #histverify #setopt hist_ignore_dups \ #extendedhistory \ #histignoredups \ #histverify -- Eric Smith