From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [bug] history corrupt on utf8
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:33:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7ZQiT8g3uU+rzmKNWC+WE-xOrVCX_LUHZKJq5tPnOxgtw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3RqD-JfWKUeG08Atrbhcoz9XZEXvBP_b_cP21EMy5RunA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jun 22, 2013 7:07 PM, "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The history file isn't saved verbatim, since the command line can
> contain non-utf8, nuls, etc.
To be more specific, the history file is saved in the same format used to
represent history lines internally, except for prefixing newlines with
backslash. The file is only "corrupted" if zsh itself can't re-read it.
We gave up on sharing history files with other shells a long time ago.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-23 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-22 18:45 Alexander Voikov
2013-06-23 2:06 ` Mikael Magnusson
2013-06-23 18:33 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2013-06-23 21:24 ` Mikael Magnusson
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