Re: [OT] Not clobbering bash history

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > So the commands of Basb process A and those of Basb process B would be
  > > interspersed in the history?  And as you go forward and back in the
  > > history in Bash process B, you would see A's commands and B's commands
  > > in chronological order?

  > Yes.  ZSH does implement this well IME (but I haven't used ZSH
  > extensively.. so I'm not sure if I'd run into trouble with it).

  > > 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.

  > Some do prefer that.  It'd be reasonable to do that by default, as it's
  > currently the default.

It seems fine to support both modes and let each user choose.

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