Re: [OT] Not clobbering bash history

[mbork]

On 2023-12-07, at 06:48, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:

> mbork wrote:
>
>>> That makes a kind of sense, but what I would envision is
>>> that each Bash process has its own history with only the
>>> commands of that process.
>>>
>>> Why do you prefer the shared history file approach to the
>>> one-history-per-process approach?
>>
>> Isn't it obvious? If I have several terminals open at the
>> same time (and I seldom have fewer than, say, three, usually
>> more), sharing history is very useful. It easy to remember
>> that I issued some kind of command, but much more difficult
>> to remember in which terminal I did it. Sharing history
>> lessens my cognitive load.
>
> How do you access history? One item at a time?

Either that, or C-r (i.e., searching), depending on the situation.

> Because if you do one task in one terminal, maybe vading
> through history one item at a time will then be annoying since
> items from everywhere else, from other tasks, will make you
> have to cycle a lot before you find what you look for?

Good point.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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