zsh_history not showing all the entries but some

zsh_history not showing all the entries but some

[shirish शिरीष]

Dear Friends,

I don't know why but .zsh_history only shows a few entries and not all.

    shirish@debian ~ % history
      155  zless changelog.Debian.gz
      156* torbrowser-launcher
      157* apt-cache rdepends libsdl1.2debian
      158* hg clone https://bitbucket.org/allacrost/allacrost
      160  cd Videos
      161  history | grep apg
      162  history | less

This is what is in .zshrc -

    % cat .zshrc
    # Set up the prompt

    autoload -Uz promptinit
    promptinit
    prompt adam1

    setopt histignorealldups sharehistory

    # Use emacs keybindings even if our EDITOR is set to vi
    bindkey -e

    # Keep 10000 lines of history within the shell and save it to
~/.zsh_history:
    HISTSIZE=10000
    SAVEHIST=10000
    HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history

    # Use modern completion system
    autoload -Uz compinit
    compinit

    zstyle ':completion:*' auto-description 'specify: %d'
    zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand _complete _correct _approximate
    zstyle ':completion:*' format 'Completing %d'
    zstyle ':completion:*' group-name ''
    zstyle ':completion:*' menu select=2
    eval "$(dircolors -b)"
    zstyle ':completion:*:default' list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}
    zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ''
    zstyle ':completion:*' list-prompt %SAt %p: Hit TAB for more, or
the character to insert%s
    zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list '' 'm:{a-z}={A-Z}'
'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}' 'r:|[._-]=* r:|=* l:|=*'
    zstyle ':completion:*' menu select=long
    zstyle ':completion:*' select-prompt %SScrolling active: current
selection at %p%s
    zstyle ':completion:*' use-compctl false
    zstyle ':completion:*' verbose true

    zstyle ':completion:*:*:kill:*:processes' list-colors '=(#b)
#([0-9]#)*=0=01;31'
    zstyle ':completion:*:kill:*' command 'ps -u $USER -o
pid,%cpu,tty,cputime,cmd'

I do have several tabs of the VTE (Virtual Terminal Emulator) or zsh
open. Maybe I'm missing a trick or something.

Except for the change in number of entries to be kept on record, all
others the default values.

I am on Debian testing and using zsh version -

    % zsh --version
    zsh 5.4.2 (x86_64-debian-linux-gnu)

     ~ % ls -l ~/.zsh_history
    -rw------- 1 shirish shirish 6451 Jan  5 20:59 /home/shirish/.zsh_history

This is on Debian buster aka testing.

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Re: zsh_history not showing all the entries but some

[Bart Schaefer]

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 2:07 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know why but .zsh_history only shows a few entries and not all.
>
>     shirish@debian ~ % history

       history
              Same as fc -l.

       fc -l [ -nrdfEiD ] [ -t timefmt ] [ -m match ]
             [ old=new ... ] [ first [ last ] ]

              If first is not specified, it will be set to -1 (the most recent
              event), or to -16 if the -l flag is given.  If last is not spec-
              ified,  it  will  be  set  to  first, or to -1 if the -l flag is
              given.

So you should be seeing the 16 most recent entries, minus any that are
duplicates (because you have histignorealldups set).

Note that first and last are relative to the pre-assigned history
event numbers, not applied to a count of entries.

Re: zsh_history not showing all the entries but some

[shirish शिरीष]

at bottom :-

On 05/01/2018, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 2:07 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know why but .zsh_history only shows a few entries and not all.
>>
>>     shirish@debian ~ % history
>
>        history
>               Same as fc -l.
>
>        fc -l [ -nrdfEiD ] [ -t timefmt ] [ -m match ]
>              [ old=new ... ] [ first [ last ] ]
>
>               If first is not specified, it will be set to -1 (the most
> recent
>               event), or to -16 if the -l flag is given.  If last is not
> spec-
>               ified,  it  will  be  set  to  first, or to -1 if the -l flag
> is
>               given.
>
> So you should be seeing the 16 most recent entries, minus any that are
> duplicates (because you have histignorealldups set).
>
> Note that first and last are relative to the pre-assigned history
> event numbers, not applied to a count of entries.
>

Thank you bart for answering fast.

oh, that was the default thing, just saw
https://superuser.com/questions/519596/share-history-in-multiple-zsh-shell
which explains what is happening.

I just used unsetopt histignorealldups

and not it works, thank you

I still have yet to find out the other default values, maybe need to
change those too.

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