On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:29:02PM +0200, Martin Bähr wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:21:29AM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> > > I think the history is conceptually a builtin, because you can't set
> > > it (and should not be able to). 
> > Why shouldn't I set it?
> 
> yes, i also would like to be able to add commands to the history with
> out executing them. often i am working on a command, then i realize i
> need to do something else first. at that point it would be nice to
> add the command to the history to serve as memory and be able to come
> back to it later.

I do this fairly frequently in irssi.  I'll start typing out a long
response to something and then press the down arrow to get a blank line
(pushing what I had been typing into the 'history').  I can then type
something else and later go back to finish the long response I had
started.

James
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