Re: Colon-prompt (:) command history contains only one entry

[Ethan Mallove]

On Wed, Dec/10/2008 07:57:51PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 02:43:51PM -0500, Ethan Mallove wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I use the ":at" command often in Screen, but it seems my history for
> > ":" commands contains only a single entry (accessible by hitting the
> > UpArrow at the ":" prompt). Is there a way to increase this limit?
> > E.g., a variable to tweak in the source code? I'm using Screen version
> > 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06.
> [...]
> 
> No, but I remember someone sending a patch for that some time
> ago: http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.screen.user/2005-03/msg00008.html
> 
> Note: I've not tried that patch myself. And there might be
> others as it's true it's one of the features many people would
> expect to find in screen.

Excellent. Thanks!

I had to grab the patch below as the attachment seems to have been
expired at the osdir.com site:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2005-03/msg00008.html

-Ethan

> 
> Cheers,
> St?phane
> 
> 
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