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Re: completion and history

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
To: jmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh users list)
Subject: Re: completion and history
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 09:56:56 +0100
In-reply-to: "Jimmy Mäkelä"'s message of "Sun, 01 Mar 1998 21:12:09 MET." <19980301211209.42475@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> And how do i get the appendhistory thing to work, what have i done wrong:
> 
> % grep HIST .zshrc
> HISTSIZE=200
> HISTFILE=.zshistory

What you also need and hasn't yet been mentioned is to set SAVEHIST.
HISTSIZE specifies the size of the history that will be kept within
the shell, SAVEHIST the size that will be saved --- in your case
probably 0.  SAVEHIST=200 would be a good bet.

I feel another FAQ entry coming on.

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