Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Improve defaults

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 9:37 PM Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It doesn't make much sense to specify so many options when simple
> defaults can do it.

Personally speaking, I disapprove of almost every hunk of this
patchset.  Side-effects upon existing uses of "fc -p" are not
considered, nor are use cases involving SHARE_HISTORY, APPEND_HISTORY,
INC_APPEND_HISTORY, and HIST_SAVE_NO_DUPS, although I suppose in most
of the latter cases users will already be populating the full set of
variables.

Specifically with respect to the value of HISTFILE, the use of
".histfile" in zsh-newuser-install has always been a bit questionable
and seems to assume a $ZDOTDIR exists ... a previous common practice
was to use ~/.zhistory (although the only place that's codified is in
the csh-to-zsh conversion script c2z).