Re: Persistent history not working

[Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Frank Terbeck (Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:37:24 +0100)
> 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.
> 
> I didn't quite get this, when I first read your mail, sorry. Does this
> mean, history saving does work for you on other operating systems?

Yes, sure.

> > > > 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.
> 
> As for the default values:
> 
> [snip]
> % zsh -fc 'print -$SAVEHIST- -$HISTSIZE- -$HISTFILE-'
> -0- -30- --
> [snap]
> 
> If you set HISTFILE and HISTSIZE, that's fine (and for HISTFILE it's
> even required); As you can see however, $SAVEHIST is 0 by default,
> which means, nothing will be saved.

I set these values in my .zshrc. But when I started zsh without .zshrc 
(to rule out config file issues) I only set $HISTFILE. So I will 
repeat my test on Monday with the three history settings to see if it 
makes a difference.


Thorsten