I tried pretty much same code but without "zsh -i", that's why the subject
says "non-interactive". My larger script misbehaves and exits with 0 before
it could complete if I replace #!/usr/bin/env zsh with #!/usr/bin/env -S
zsh -fi or #!/usr/bin/env -S zsh -i. Is there a restriction on starting any
existing functional zsh program with -fi? Put another way, are all
non-interactive shell scripts guaranteed to function when shebang is
changed to #!/usr/bin/env -S zsh -fi??


On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 12:18 AM Roman Perepelitsa <
roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 8:36 AM OG Code Poet <ogcodepoet@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Let's say there is a non-interactive script with multiple form fields
> (each with a different vared), and a user can enter the form multiple
> times. I want to preserve individual history for each form field.
> >
> > There are two possibilities:
> >
> > 1. Keep history internal to the script
> >         I couldn't find an interface for this. Doing ``fc -p`` once in
> the beginning of script does provide an internal history, but it is shared
> between all vareds (which is not ideal).
> > 2. Keep history external to the script
> >         Not all ``fc`` commands work. ``fc -R`` does read correctly from
> external history files. But ``print -s``, ``fc-W`` and ``fc -A`` do not.
> Seems the only option is to do an echo "$string"
> >>~/path//form_entry_1.hist file. But I guess that has disadvantages
> because it lacks the benefits that zsh provides in resolving duplicates.
> >
> > Is there a way out? Should this also be copied to zsh-workers for
> feature request?
>
> How about this?
>
>     #!/usr/bin/env -S zsh -fi
>
>     histdir=~/.formhist
>     mkdir -p -- $histdir || exit
>
>     function read-field() {
>       emulate -L zsh
>       local var=$1
>       local desc=$2
>       fc -pa $histdir/$var 1000 1000
>       trap 'exit 130' INT
>       vared -hep "Enter $desc: " -c $var || exit
>       print -rs -- ${(P)var}
>     }
>
>     while true; do
>       read-field first_name '%F{green}First Name%f'
>       typeset -p first_name
>       unset first_name
>
>       read-field email '%F{yellow}Email Address%f'
>       typeset -p email
>       unset email
>     done
>
> The trap is a workaround for what looks like a bug. Without it, if
> interrupt vared with Ctrl-C, the history file gets truncated to its
> first entry.
>
> Roman.
>