Re: HISTCHARS

["Barton E. Schaefer" <schaefer@z-code.ncd.com>]

On May 23,  9:36pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
} Subject: Re: HISTCHARS
}
} > Why not just mirror histchars/HISTCHARS, as with cdpath/CDPATH et. al.?
} 
} It is desirable to minimize the number of special parameters sice it is
} quite difficult to handle special parameters in some cases.  It can be
} arranged that HISTCHARS will only work if zsh is not called as sh/ksh but
} is it really necessary?

If it *has* to be limited that way, it's probably not worth the effort.

} HISTCHARS did not even work originally since in
} many places in the source ! was used explicitely instead of bangchar (but
} it worked for hashchar I know).

It also worked for the quick-history character, which is what's important
to me.

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