Re: rewriting history

[<pl...@pi...>]

On 12/14/13 08:58, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 November 2013 05:29:58 PM pl...@pi... wrote:
>> On 11/19/13 16:24, Petr Mikulik wrote:
>>> There is no option to switch "history" between "compact" and "full"
>>> recording. That could be probably added...
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Petr Mikulik
>>
>> that would be nice and presumably pretty trivial to just stop it doing
>> the compacting.
>>
>>
>> If anyone can point me at the relevant code I will have a poke.
>>
>> thx, Peter.
>
> I think you can replace the entire #ifdef clause at command.c(rlgets) lines 2718-2751
> with the single line
> 	add_history(line);
>
> This works for all three cases of the #ifdef.
> Note that the built-in readline already acts this way.
>
> An intermediate option would be to suppress only duplication of the
> previous command.  This is what the comments say the libedit version
> does, but the code seems to contradict that (I have not tried it).
> I think you could get that behavior by replacing
> 	found = history_search(line, -1);
> with
> 	found = 0;
> but again I have not tested.
>
> 	Ethan
>

Thanks Ethan,

I'll try to find time to check that out. It's about time a did fresh 
build anyway.

Peter.