Trouble with 'fc -l'

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

If I run " fc -l -1 " from the command line, it works as expected, however:


function z ()
{
  fc -R
  fc -l -1
}

When 'z' is executed, my entire saved history scrolls past and history 
itself is 'advanced' by several thousand places.  I can have either 
line:  " fc -R " or " fc -l -1 "  alone in the function and it works as 
expected.  I can also do this:

function z ()
{
  fc -R
  fc -l
}

... and it works fine--I get the last 16 lines of updated history as I 
should.  But whenever I try to modify " fc -l ... " in any way, I get 
either a "no such event: 0" message, or ,again, the whole of history 
scrolls by.  It seems very strange, what am I doing wrong?