Re: completion and history

[Mircea Damian <dmircea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 09:56:56AM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > 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.

Yes you're right... As a new user I was puzzled. I think that a default
value of 30-50 entries would be better than an uninitialized variable.

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