Re: [OT] Not clobbering bash history

[Arsen Arsenović]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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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.

I agree.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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