Re: Help with history . . .

[Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:09:03AM -0500, Peter Chen wrote:
> I have my HISTSIZE set to 3000 already.  The problem is, when I type 
> "history", I can only see 16 entries despite the fact I have hundreds 
> of entries in my history file.  Is there a way to get the "history" 
> command to display all the entries in the history file like the command 
> does in bash?

  $ history -<n>

where <n> is the number of entries you want to see or

  $ history 1

for all entries.  See the documentation for the fc command in the
zshbuiltins man page for further details.
 
> On Nov 10, 2003, at 3:38 AM, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> 
> >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

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^