Re: Persistent history not working

[Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Frank Terbeck (Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:23:45 +0100)
> Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I have one Windows 2003 R2 SP1 Terminal Server running zsh under 
> > Cygwin (all latest versions[1]). It uses the same .zshrc as all my 
> > other installation but for some reason history is not saved across 
> > sessions.
> > 
> > This is what I tried: deleted all zsh config files and set manually 
> > "HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history". No success.
> [...]
> > What else could I do or try to find the reason for this behaviour?
> 
> Before looking any further, could you check if this FAQ entry helps?
>     <http://zsh.sunsite.dk/FAQ/zshfaq03.html#l38>

Yeah, I did that. As far as I remember HISTSIZE and HISTFILE have 
defaults so they don't need to be set manually. But I definitely set 
them in my .zshrc.

Thorsten