On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:15:15PM -0500, James Vega wrote:
> Considering its primary use is to avoid typing commands again and it's a
> lossy store, it definitely seems like cache info to me.  The impact from
> removing ~/.config/fish/fish_history is minimal -- having to type a full
> command instead of being able to complete/edit a previous one.

sure, i just consider a cache to be something that can be automatically
regenerated, not something that i need to keep in my own memory :-)

> If the intended purpose were logging (which implies auditing), then you
> wouldn't want to delete commands from the history.  This currently
> happens in the fact that duplicate commands are elided from the history
> even if they weren't successive commands.

well, i consider it as a log of any command i ever typed, so that i do
not need to remember the command but i can just search it. especially
for some more complex commands that i run on a semi regular basis.
but just like logs are rotated once in a while, it would be ok to
clean out really old commands.
  
it is just my extended memory. the history list is small enough that i
would not want it to fall victim to any cache cleaning operations.

greetings, martin.
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