I see, I wasn't aware of the zshaddhistory hook
thanks Bart

Pier Paolo Grassi


Il giorno gio 24 ago 2023 alle ore 05:20 Bart Schaefer <
schaefer@brasslantern.com> ha scritto:

> On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 7:41 AM Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Years ago I created a widget that allows me to accept a line without
> committing it to the history:
> [...]
> > So I wonder, what would be a better implementation?
>
> How about something along the lines of:
>
> execute_no_history() {
>   setopt hist_ignore_space
>   zle .accept-line
> }
> zshaddhistory() {
>   [[ -o hist_ignore_space ]] && return 2
> }
> precmd() {
>   unsetopt hist_ignore_space
> }
>
> You can use a global variable instead of any otherwise-unused setopt
> if you prefer.
>