From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from math.gatech.edu (euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with SMTP id WAA27766 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 22:00:22 +1100 (EST) Received: by math.gatech.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02126; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 05:31:16 -0500 Resent-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:31:20 +0100 (MET) Old-Return-Path: From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199510311031.LAA19832@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: new test release To: coleman@math.gatech.edu (Richard Coleman) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:31:20 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199510291125.GAA09457@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> from "Richard Coleman" at Oct 29, 95 06:25:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: hzoli@cs.elte.hu Resent-Message-Id: <"720_Q.0.8X.phVbm"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/511 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Richard wrote: > commands and builtins) or on `exit'. I still haven't added the patch > to suppress saving of the history file if the `exec' is used in the > init scripts. I'm not sure what the reasoning for this is. I don't use > the history file that much. Mark, was it you asking for this? My patch contained the code to disable history saving on exec from an init script. The reason for that (as I wrote it when I posted the patch) is that the history file is loaded after all of the init scripts have been completed. Therefore whe history is empty in initialisation time, unless someone loads it explicitely with fc. Certainly noone wants to save an empty history. Cheers, Zoltan