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Re: .zsh_history

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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Perry Smith <pedz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: .zsh_history
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 09:00:47 -0500
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/29016>
In-reply-to: <CAN=4vMop84QR7gfS9SF5Un2kxp9ggzFJbOURWy-NXabKiQERmg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 11:54 AM Roman Perepelitsa
<roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 6:17 PM Perry Smith <pedz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I don’t have anything special set up other than setting HISTFILE, HISTSIZE=2097152, and SAVEHIST=1048576.  I also have histignoredups and histignorealldups on.
> >
> >
> > TL; DR: question: Does zsh re-read the .zsh_history file at the time it is exiting by default?
>
> Yes. If you exit all shells, you'll have history from all of them
> saved within $HISTFILE.

That isn't true.

That's true *only* if APPEND_HISTORY is set, which yeah, is the
default, but still, let's be clear.

When APPEND_HISTORY isn't set, only the history of the last shell is saved.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

References:
- .zsh_history
  - From: Perry Smith
- Re: .zsh_history
  - From: Roman Perepelitsa

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