From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8248 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2003 08:39:10 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Nov 2003 08:39:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 13647 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2003 08:38:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6751 Received: (qmail 13633 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2003 08:38:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Nov 2003 08:38:53 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [81.6.215.59] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 10 Nov 2003 8:38:52 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.happygiraffe.net [127.0.0.1]) by happygiraffe.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86ADBB848; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:38:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from happygiraffe.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ppe.happygiraffe.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29048-04-3; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:38:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by happygiraffe.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 093A7B846; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:38:51 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:38:50 +0000 To: Peter Chen Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Help with history . . . Message-ID: <20031110083850.GA29585@ppe.happygiraffe.net> References: <402D1B57-133B-11D8-9CCD-000A95A06332@jhmi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <402D1B57-133B-11D8-9CCD-000A95A06332@jhmi.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at happygiraffe.net On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:03:40AM -0500, Peter Chen wrote: > I use the Ctrl-R command to search through the history of commands. > I've noticed that the history command in zsh by default only shows the > last dozen or so entries in the history file. When I use the Ctrl-R > command, the command only searches through the same last dozen or so > entries in the history file. Is there a way to get Ctrl-R and the > history command to show ALL the entries in the history file? Set the HISTSIZE parameter to a larger value than it's default (32). I have this in my .zshrc: HISTSIZE=1024 -Dom