From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scratch/tzz/tramp-histfile-override ef6a691: Introduce tramp-histfile-override.
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:33:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d27go22s.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54932278.4050006@lanl.gov> (Davis Herring's message of "Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:52:40 -0700")
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:52:40 -0700 Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov> wrote:
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> +
DH> This may be a trivial difference, but isn't it cleaner to unset HISTFILE
DH> than to set it to "/dev/null"?
Hi Davis,
this was pre-existing in Tramp. I think the difference is that
unsetting HISTFILE does not disable history.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-19 1:33 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <E1Y1Jtn-0005he-B6@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2014-12-17 19:07 ` scratch/tzz/tramp-histfile-override ef6a691: Introduce tramp-histfile-override Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-17 19:27 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-17 19:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-17 21:03 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-17 21:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-18 18:52 ` Davis Herring
2014-12-19 1:33 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-12-19 9:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-12-20 11:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
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