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spaceflag question; remhist() going away
- X-seq: zsh-workers 12264
- From: Wayne Davison <wayned@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Zsh Workers <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: spaceflag question; remhist() going away
- Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:54:27 -0700 (PDT)
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There's a variable that gets set in input.c called "spaceflag". It
gets set if the first character of the first line is a space. Later
on, the history code checks this flag when the HIST_IGNORE_SPACE
option is set. Can anyone tell me why the history code doesn't just
check if (*chline == ' ') instead of checking spaceflag? I've removed
this variable from my local source, and everything appears to be
working just fine without it.
In a related area, I've dumped the function remhist() in my local
source. This function is a constant source of bugs, and I found
yet another bug today: if you have HIST_IGNORE_SPACE set along
with HIST_NO_STORE, you lose a line of history every time you type
" history" (note the leading space).
I've been wanting to dump remhist() for some time now due to how it
does not properly interact with the INC_APPEND_HIST & SHARE_HISTORY
options. My solution is to use string matching of the command line
to determine if this is a command that should not be saved. I'm also
considering adding a general-purpose environment variable that would
allow the user to specify an arbitrary pattern that would cause the
current command line not to be stored in the history. I was thinking
about calling it $HISTIGNOREMATCH.
Comments are welcomed.
..wayne..
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