From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk, 183730-submitter@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#183730: zsh: setting SAVEHIST breaks history saving without warning
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:07:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040809150737.GA10711@scowler.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408090950.i799oaMM002904@news01.csr.com>
> (Why does this `break history saving'? Or is the subject line
> inaccurate? I'll assume the latter for now.)
I think he set SAVEHIST to some enormously large value which wrapped to
0, and thus the saving of his history was "broken", without a clear
indication why.
> The number assigned is obviously too large to be directly useful; what
> was the intention? Always save values at the end of the history list
> regardless of what was there already?
Perhaps. Tollef, could you elaborate?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-09 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-03-10 4:42 ` Clint Adams
2004-08-08 5:21 ` Clint Adams
2004-08-09 9:50 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-08-09 15:07 ` Clint Adams [this message]
2004-08-09 15:14 ` Peter Stephenson
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