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Re: Bug#183730: zsh: setting SAVEHIST breaks history saving without warning

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From: Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Bug#183730: zsh: setting SAVEHIST breaks history saving without warning
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:07:37 -0400
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> (Why does this `break history saving'?  Or is the subject line
> inaccurate?  I'll assume the latter for now.)

I think he set SAVEHIST to some enormously large value which wrapped to
0, and thus the saving of his history was "broken", without a clear
indication why.

> The number assigned is obviously too large to be directly useful; what
> was the intention?  Always save values at the end of the history list
> regardless of what was there already?

Perhaps.  Tollef, could you elaborate?

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- Re: Bug#183730: zsh: setting SAVEHIST breaks history saving without warning
  - From: Clint Adams
- Re: Bug#183730: zsh: setting SAVEHIST breaks history saving without warning
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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