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Re: vared history not working inside scripts

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: vared history not working inside scripts
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:56:48 +0000
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:55:43 +0530
rahul <rahul2012@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On the command line, "vared -h" allows me to access history using arrow
> keys or Control-R.
> Inside a script, nothing happens. Is there some setting I have to make in
> scripts.

I think you'll need to use interactive mode to get history to work.  Use
"zsh -i".  That'll stop you using "env" to find the shell, however ---
you can't change the option when the shell is running.

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