From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA11428 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 05:07:05 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA01200; Thu, 23 May 1996 14:48:46 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 14:48:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199605231848.OAA19889@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.6 3/24/96 To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: HISTCHARS In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 May 1996 20:32:05 +0200." <199605231832.UAA04182@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 14:48:33 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Resent-Message-ID: <"ayOkn3.0.eI.DCBfn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1151 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > > Somebody remind me why this has become a lower-case variable, and why it is > > not mirrored to/from the upper-case version? > > > > Does anybody know what the comprehensive list of these seemingly arbitrary > > incompatibilities is? I'm getting really tired of tweaking and re-tweaking > > my .zsh* files every time I find another of these stupid things. We need a > > complete upgrade guide of some sort. > > HISTCHARS was changed to histchars quite long ago because both bash and csh > use the lower-case version. Yes, I made that change. And I've since come to regret it. I had planned on changing it back, but was procrastinating since I'm sure lots of people would raise hell. I think it makes more sense for it to be HISTCHARS, since this is consistent with the case of HISTFILE and HISTSIZE. I now believe this to be more important than compatibility with base or csh. I would suggest we change it back before the release of 3.0. rc