Re: A key to delete a history item would be nice

[Dave Yost <Dave@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the suggestions. But my RFE stands. It is a useful thing to be able to clean up clutter. The feature I’m proposing does that.

On Thu 2013-01-03, at 03:17 PM, Ivan Sichmann Freitas <ivansichfreitas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 01:22:02PM -0800, Dave Yost did gyre and gimble:
> 
>> I’m using up-arrow to look back in history. Some of those history items
>> are useless because they are mistakes.
> 
> I would recommend using history-incremental-search-backward and
> history-incremental-pattern-search-backward (the former has the default
> binding of Control+r in emacs mode) even if you manage to delete items
> from your history. They are much faster and enable you to search history
> based in words or patterns.
> 
>> It would be nice if there were a keystroke that would delete the current history item.
> 
> AFAIK there's no default zle widget to delete a item from the history,
> but I think you can achieve it by creating a custom zle widget (se
> zshzle(1) manpage). However, there are ways to control what is recorded
> in history, see options HIST_IGNORE_DUPS, HIST_IGNORE_SPACE and others
> at zshoptions(1).
> 
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