From: Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: zcalc bug
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:03:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040513200359.GA8171@blorf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20277.1084460278@csr.com>
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:57:58PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Wayne, have you any idea how easy it would be to implement something
> to make switching history files easy?
I'd like to see something that doesn't involve saving and restoring the
lines of the current history to a file, but instead just shunts aside
the internal data temporarily. This would be the least disruptive,
especially since some info is lost when it gets written out and re-read
(I'm thinking of the local/imported distinction when sharing history
between multiple shells as at least one such thing that is lost).
A couple different potential idioms for surfacing this to the user come
to mind:
pushhist; ...; pophist
setopt localoptions tmphist
Both would do approximately the same thing internally, but I would
assume that a push/pop idiom would be expected to handle more than one
saved history at a time. Either one would save and restore the history-
related environment variables (like HISTFILE & HISTSIZE) but (I assume)
not any of the history-related options (those a script could set locally
using the already-existing means).
It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to find all the variables that
need to be tweaked (maybe putting them into a single structure) and then
implementing something that can save and restore them under user control.
What do you think?
..wayne..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-13 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-11 12:17 Matthias Kopfermann
2004-05-13 14:04 ` Thomas Köhler
2004-05-13 14:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-13 15:19 ` Matthias Kopfermann
2004-05-13 15:58 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-13 17:29 ` Matthias Kopfermann
2004-05-13 17:47 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-13 18:06 ` Matthias Kopfermann
2004-05-13 20:05 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-13 20:03 ` Wayne Davison [this message]
2004-05-14 9:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-15 0:22 ` Wayne Davison
2004-05-18 11:28 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-18 19:50 ` [PATCH] local history support, take 2 Wayne Davison
2004-05-18 21:32 ` Wayne Davison
2004-05-19 9:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-19 16:58 ` Wayne Davison
2004-05-19 21:37 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-21 1:37 ` Wayne Davison
2004-05-21 1:44 ` Wayne Davison
2004-05-21 9:15 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-21 20:06 ` Wayne Davison
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