Question about the Zsh History event number

Question about the Zsh History event number

[Vikas Mishra]

Hello Folks,

I am new to Zsh (have moved to Zsh recently from BASH). I am loving it
so far. I was playing around with my prompt. I have set the PROMPT
variable as

export PROMPT="[%m %h] %1d  > "

I have one small issue, the history event number is not resetting to 1
when I start a new shell. Is this expected (at least in BASH this used
to reset to 1 in a new shell).

Any suggestions ? Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Vikas

Re: Question about the Zsh History event number

[Joke de Buhr]

If you are using a saved history each time you start a zsh session the old 
history gets imported. The numbering continues. You can use old event numbers 
in you new session if you like.

There are some options how you can control the history behavior. 
http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Options.html#SEC105

Furthermore zsh has the ability to share it's history across multiple running 
sessions. Each command get's it's own event number. You can recall the command 
with event number 123 entered in zsh session 1 from zsh session 2 by using the 
history command "!123".

On Thursday, 8. April 2010 18:18:54 Vikas Mishra wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I am new to Zsh (have moved to Zsh recently from BASH). I am loving it
> so far. I was playing around with my prompt. I have set the PROMPT
> variable as
> 
> export PROMPT="[%m %h] %1d  > "
> 
> I have one small issue, the history event number is not resetting to 1
> when I start a new shell. Is this expected (at least in BASH this used
> to reset to 1 in a new shell).
> 
> Any suggestions ? Thanks for your help.
> 
> Regards,
> Vikas
>