From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [OT] Not clobbering bash history Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:01:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wmufm7r7.fsf@catern.com> <87fs12jkik.fsf@yahoo.com> <87ttphlqlo.fsf@catern.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28652"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, sbaugh@catern.com, luangruo@yahoo.com To: brickviking Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 04:01:58 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r5dUz-0007Ex-Ax for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 04:01:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r5dUh-0000cs-Ve; Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:01:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r5dUf-0000cg-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:01:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r5dUf-0003n5-6p; Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:01:37 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=qBV1hcRyisN6ZyIvOnJXKEQiPVh5BXe+DHeK1QAGZP8=; b=cFCgfFhkDL+E Mvp52TiYEnNQq083b/d6Hg0o7N12Mk9CuUoYuctLKUgsuGlXy3qqZL8M6nG3E1Ug7zrvnOQoWvq9J XmAqgjEE2wyCJxjDlVzHF7MIC/3Pryu/5u3H9k2tjq+rL3g+EQfIArwv0vcshrLqUdGQ+ulzrLlss RaGc8+iNqOIZpszXUjZkowRVZNqRJRZu14X806IT6cSqZ2UxUJxA5R32f6+fb4IZyQNok/8b/RRSG QQaMMYCzgAuIr/9mz4TsM12db7HmKzQOKiJD4itMzxn1nR3j2gG2tVXvl/NUP/lkjjHPHtJDcN/LR 98arN5wB4VvCsLodzfyDpw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r5dUV-00019J-Gz; Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:01:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from brickviking on Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:55:35 +1300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:313125 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > I definitely find the bash history experience extremely annoying. It > > happens even when bash is exited cleanly - it's just a consequence of > > the fact that bash overwrites the previous history when exiting, rather > > than combining them in some way. Should we suggest that the Bash developer add a feature to handle this case (multiple shells in parallel) the "right" way? If many users would like it, that could make it worth building in. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)