bug#1505: duplicate entries in compile-history

bug#1505: duplicate entries in compile-history

[Tom Tromey]

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and the precise symptoms of the bug:


I ran into the following situation yesterday:

I ran one compile command in the morning.  Then, for the rest of the
day, I ran a couple of different compile command, alternating them
many times.  Near the end of the day, I wanted to re-run the first
command, but it had been removed from history.

It would be nice if there were a way to eliminate duplicates from
compile-history, so that older commands were not completely dropped.
For instance, a command could still be put at the front of the list;
but all duplicates of it elsewhere in the list could be removed at the
same time.


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In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2008-05-23 on xenbuilder4.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10500000
configured using `configure  '--build=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-sound' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwin
 d-tables''

Important settings:
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  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
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Recent input:
C-p C-p C-k I <backspace> I t ' s SPC b e e n SPC a 
SPC w h i l e SPC . . . SPC y o u SPC o k ? C-c C-c 
M SPC = q s M-v C-u C-u C-p n n n n M-g M-g M-g s <switch-frame> 
C-h v c o m p i l <tab> a t <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> 
C-g <switch-frame> <switch-frame> C-x C-f ~ / . e m 
a c s <return> M-> C-r c o m p C-h v <return> C-x k 
<return> C-x o C-x 1 C-c b C-h v c o m p i l e - <tab> 
h i <tab> <return> C-x o C-x 1 M-> C-c b C-z o C-z 
o C-h v M-p <return> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> 
C-x 1 C-l C-s c o m C-w C-w C-s C-a C-z o C-x C-f g 
n <tab> E m <tab> e m <tab> l i s <tab> p r o <tab> 
c o m <M-backspace> p r o g <tab> c o m <tab> <return> 
C-s c o m p i l e - h i s t o r y C-s C-p C-a M-f C-h 
f <return> C-h f r e a C-g C-z o C-z o C-x C-g M-x 
l g r e p <return> <return> <return> <M-backspace> 
<return> C-x o C-x 1 C-u C-n C-u C-n C-u C-n C-n C-c 
C-c C-x 1 C-l C-u C-n C-u C-n C-l <help-echo> C-n C-n 
M-f C-p C-h f <return> C-x o C-x 1 <help-echo> <switch-frame> 
<help-echo> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <help-echo> 
<switch-frame> <help-echo> <next> <prior> C-c b C-z 
o <switch-frame> C-h l C-x o C-x 1 C-c b M-x r e p 
o r t - e m <tab> b <tab> <M-backspace> <tab> b <tab> 
<return>

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Tom

bug#1505: duplicate entries in compile-history

[richardeng]

This is not a bug.

add following in your .emacs:
(setq history-delete-duplicates t)
(setq history-length 1000)

bug#1505: duplicate entries in compile-history

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

  > I ran into the following situation yesterday:
  > 
  > I ran one compile command in the morning.  Then, for the rest of the
  > day, I ran a couple of different compile command, alternating them
  > many times.  Near the end of the day, I wanted to re-run the first
  > command, but it had been removed from history.
  > 
  > It would be nice if there were a way to eliminate duplicates from
  > compile-history, so that older commands were not completely dropped.
  > For instance, a command could still be put at the front of the list;
  > but all duplicates of it elsewhere in the list could be removed at the
  > same time.

C-h v history-delete-duplicate RET

history-delete-duplicates is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is t

Documentation:
*Non-nil means to delete duplicates in history.
If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical
elements are deleted from the history list.

(inspired by tcsh's histdup)

This works on all histories, not only compile-history.

bug#1505: duplicate entries in compile-history

[Tom Tromey]

Dan> C-h v history-delete-duplicate RET

Thanks, I didn't know about this.

Dan> *Non-nil means to delete duplicates in history.
Dan> If set to t when adding a new history element, all previous identical
Dan> elements are deleted from the history list.

Dan> This works on all histories, not only compile-history.

I'll try it and see whether there are cases where I want the other
behavior.

Tom