From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21346 invoked from network); 5 Mar 1998 19:15:59 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 5 Mar 1998 19:15:59 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA24607; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:54:29 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:54:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: From: matthi@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE (Matthias Kopfermann) Subject: history expansion again To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:56:43 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] Content-Type: text Resent-Message-ID: <"CrN-G1.0.t_5.AJl_q"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1370 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu well, i read the mailinglist for a long time without asking about my history-problem. i wanted to find out myself. i used the variables like in the zsh-faq. still i did not get a history-file. then i found out, that i needed /etc/zshenv for it to work. everything is fine now, but: i love to see old typed history-commands completed. but somehow only the today history-commands do get completed when i am a normal user. when i am root, everything is as it should be, so i am clueless. to make it sure: i get history-completion but not from yesterdays commands :( i have not the smallest idea, why. i read the history-description again and again but no help. the command i love is history-beginning-search-backward. hmm, i don't know, do i have to get more into details? i use linux 2.029 on a pentium with zsh-3.1.2