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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.DE>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Saving/Recalling Shell Commands History?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:14:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9895078F-3586-450F-B53C-2D4EE2B33C39@web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ecd8rd$dot$1@sea.gmane.org>


Am 21.08.2006 um 23:32 schrieb Kevin Rodgers:

>>     Its value is "~/.history"
>>     Local in buffer *shell*; global value is
>>     "~/.emacs.d/PDesktop-23/history"
>
> So you have managed to change its global value, but not the value in
> the *shell* buffer.

Ahh! Now I understand how to understand this!

>
>>     Documentation:
>>     *If non-nil, name of the file to read/write input history.
>>     See also `comint-read-input-ring' and `comint-write-input-ring'.
>>         This variable is buffer-local, and is a good thing to set  
>> in mode hooks.
>>         You can /customize/ this variable.
>> When I comment the comint-input-ring-file-name setting line, its  
>> value is simply "~/.history."
>
> So leave it commented out, and put this in your ~/.emacs file:
>
> (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook
>           (lambda ()
> 	    (setq comint-input-ring-file-name ; buffer-local
> 		  (expand-file-name "history" desktop-dirname))))

It works a bit:

	Its value is
	"/Users/pete/.emacs.d/PDesktop-22/history"
	Local in buffer *shell*; global value is nil

but, since I deleted ~/.tcsh_history I have /no/ history at all ...  
So the history file as set in .emacs and although it exists and  
although I set comint-input-ring-size to a big value is not read. And  
neither written in GNU Emacsen 22.0.50 nor 23.0.0 nor 21.2.


Enough to prepare a bug report?

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   Pete

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-21 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-21 15:07 Saving/Recalling Shell Commands History? gamename
2006-08-21 16:35 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-21 20:09 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-08-21 20:17   ` Drew Adams
2006-08-21 21:08     ` Peter Dyballa
2006-08-21 21:30       ` Drew Adams
2006-08-21 21:32       ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-08-21 22:14         ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2006-08-22 23:13         ` Peter Dyballa
2006-08-23 14:20           ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-08-23 15:20             ` Peter Dyballa
2006-08-21 20:19 ` Jesse Alama
2006-08-21 21:11   ` Peter Dyballa

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