Re: zshaddhistory confusion

["Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@benizi.com>]

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On Sat, 1 Oct 2011, Jay Levitt wrote:

> Benjamin Haskell wrote:
>> zshaddhistory () {
>>   print -sr -- "${1%%$'\n'}"
>>   fc -p ~/.zsh_history_detail
>>   print -sr -- "${1%%$'\n'} ### ${PWD} $(date '+%Y-%m-%d %R')"
>>   return 1
>> }
>
> Thanks for the help! This fixes the double-write to 
> .zsh_history_detail, but is still writing weird stuff to .zsh_history:
>
> : 1317501595:0;echo autojump.zsh
> : 1317501605:0;git st
> : 1317501607:0;echo git st
> : 1317501691:0;cd
> : 1317501694:0;tail .zsh_history
>

By "weird stuff" I assume you mean the prefix?

': ' {timestamp} ':' {runtime} ';'

That's controlled by the 'extended_history' option.  You can turn it off 
via:

setopt no_extended_history

I love it (It provides half of what you're adding with your hook.), but 
I've also wanted to add PWD to my historyfiles for a while.

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Best,
Ben