From: Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com>
To: Ivan Sichmann Freitas <ivansichfreitas@gmail.com>
Cc: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: A key to delete a history item would be nice
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 19:58:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55CCBA75-D73F-4155-B2DC-B43B8849B106@Yost.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130103231702.GB1901@mjolnir>
Thanks for the suggestions. But my RFE stands. It is a useful thing to be able to clean up clutter. The feature I’m proposing does that.
On Thu 2013-01-03, at 03:17 PM, Ivan Sichmann Freitas <ivansichfreitas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 01:22:02PM -0800, Dave Yost did gyre and gimble:
>
>> I’m using up-arrow to look back in history. Some of those history items
>> are useless because they are mistakes.
>
> I would recommend using history-incremental-search-backward and
> history-incremental-pattern-search-backward (the former has the default
> binding of Control+r in emacs mode) even if you manage to delete items
> from your history. They are much faster and enable you to search history
> based in words or patterns.
>
>> It would be nice if there were a keystroke that would delete the current history item.
>
> AFAIK there's no default zle widget to delete a item from the history,
> but I think you can achieve it by creating a custom zle widget (se
> zshzle(1) manpage). However, there are ways to control what is recorded
> in history, see options HIST_IGNORE_DUPS, HIST_IGNORE_SPACE and others
> at zshoptions(1).
>
> --
> Ivan Sichmann Freitas
> GNU/Linux user #509059
> SDF Arpa Member http://isf.sdf.org/about.html
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-29 21:22 Dave Yost
2013-01-03 23:17 ` Ivan Sichmann Freitas
2013-01-04 3:58 ` Dave Yost [this message]
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