From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davis Herring Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: scratch/tzz/tramp-histfile-override ef6a691: Introduce tramp-histfile-override. Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:52:40 -0700 Organization: XCP-1 Message-ID: <54932278.4050006@lanl.gov> References: <20141217190438.21864.43602@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87egryumcq.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418931213 30463 80.91.229.3 (18 Dec 2014 19:33:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:33:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 20:33:25 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1gp9-0001ue-HM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:33:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55519 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1gp8-00071x-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:33:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46086) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1gox-00071d-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:33:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1gon-00086k-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:33:11 -0500 Original-Received: from proofpoint5.lanl.gov ([2001:400:4210:400::a5]:54172) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1gom-00086H-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:33:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by mailgate5.lanl.gov (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id sBIIqeAY013533; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:52:40 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8131373C7B; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:52:40 -0700 (MST) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay1.lanl.gov Original-Received: from [128.165.123.233] (xray-r09.lanl.gov [128.165.123.233]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 920141373C6E; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:52:40 -0700 (MST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110717 Lanikai/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <87egryumcq.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.13.68, 1.0.33, 0.0.0000 definitions=2014-12-18_06:2014-12-18, 2014-12-18, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:400:4210:400::a5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180286 Archived-At: > TZ> +(defcustom tramp-histfile-override "/dev/null" > TZ> + "Whether the HISTFILE should be overridden to something. Set > TZ> +to nil to disable the override." > TZ> + :group 'tramp > TZ> + :type '(choice (const :tag "Do not override HISTFILE" nil) > TZ> + (const :tag "Empty the history (/dev/null)" "/dev/null") > TZ> + (string :tag "Redirect to a file"))) > TZ> + This may be a trivial difference, but isn't it cleaner to unset HISTFILE than to set it to "/dev/null"? Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.