Re: search through alternative HISTFILE

[Maarten Grachten <maarten.grachten@ofai.at>]

Hi, last update, hopefully.

I found out that when I just append several history files to generate 
ACC_HISTFILE, setting HISTNO to the number of lines (+1) in 
ACC_HISTFILE, does not necessarily point zle to the end of the history. 
I am not sure why this happens (maybe it has to do with duplicate 
removals in the internal history representation?). If the value of 
HISTNO set in this way turns out to be invalid, it seems to be reset to 
its original value. I think the correct way to deal with this is to use 
the end-of-history widget to move to the end of the newly loaded history.

The resulting widget is then like this:

function accumulated-history-incremental-search-backward () {
     fc -p $ACC_HISTFILE
     zle .end-of-history
     zle .history-incremental-search-backward
     fc -P
     zle .end-of-history
}

Maarten