Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] FAQ: sync newuser-install

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 7:50 AM Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2022-09-02 09:18:57 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Mikael Magnusson wrote on Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 05:46:12 +0200:
> > > On 9/2/22, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > It is unreasonable to force absolutely every new user to set these
> > > > options just to get started.
> > >
> > > "Paste these lines in .zshrc to enable history" is not more
> > > complicated with 3 lines than 1, however much you want to argue that
> > > it is. They still need to find the line(s) to copy in the first place
> > > (or god forbid, read the documentation).
> >
> > Copy-pasting three lines is as easy as one, sure.  /Understanding/ them,
> > however, is a different kettle of fish.  If one has set three special
> > variables, then one needs to read three zshparam(1) entries rather than
> > one.
>
> Isn't $SAVEHIST equal to $HISTSIZE in most configurations?
>
> In such a case, couldn't a negative value for $SAVEHIST mean that
> it should be regarded as SAVEHIST=$HISTSIZE (dynamically)?
>
> Then I think that -1 could be the default value for SAVEHIST.
> So only HISTFILE and HISTSIZE would be needed in the .zshrc,
> and they are self-explanatory for the end user.

This is precisely what I proposed in the previous patch:

https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2022/msg00830.html

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Felipe Contreras