Re: .zsh_history

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 2023-04-14 07:36, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> I do remember that one's control of history is essentially perfect, you
>> can get just about anything you want.  History is one of those features
>> of zsh that is tractable and understandable without too much head
>> scratching and without any weird gotchas.
> I couldn't disagree more.
>
It could very well be that a closer examination than I've made would 
reveal various mysteries and gotchas.  All I can say is that I've never 
wanted something from history that it couldn't provide.  One exception: 
"$ echo one; echo two; echo three" ... you can't, AFAICT, break up the 
line into it's component commands.  One of the first brick walls I 
crashed into learning zsh was realizing that a command has no access to 
it's own unexpanded, 'raw' tail -- which still strikes me as 
incomprehensible.   Pulling a command back from history comes closest, 
but again there's that 'many commands on one line' issue.  I'd sure love 
to be able to pull just the text of a single command.