Re: Patches item #1729825 ready to go.

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On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:56:39 +0200, Petr Mikulik <mi...@ph...>  
wrote:

>> Two unresolved things.
>>
>> 1) What should be the default for {full|ignoredups|condensed}?  And why?
>
> condensed -- it is the current behaviour, and it speeds us browsing and
> mouse-copying previous commands

I would have said full should be the natural default and users wanting  
condenced should set ~/gnuplot.conf or whatever it is. HOWEVER, to save  
yet another change to the way things work I'd have to agree with Petr.  
Keep current as default. It's important to maintain backwards compat.

>
>> 2) Can we deprecate "historysize".  (I've currently programmed "set  
>> history
>> <n>" and "set historysize <n>" to be the same.)
>
> change it to 'set history size'

One of my big bugbears with Linux is that every time I need something it  
seems someone has done some insignificant little tweek and broken the way  
it works. I then have to find out what/why/where and fix it. This is a  
futile , mind-blowing waste of time.

This is a good example. If historysize is established in current release  
please leave it. The dupe will cost virtually nothing and will save users  
with established scipts being faced with extra work and breakage which  
serves no real purpose.

There are those of us who like to fiddle with code and others who rely on  
it to do a job. We should not reduce the usefulness of the software by  
unnecessary changes to the commands.

The history clean up and new features is great but please dont break what  
works.

;)