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. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org unix system- iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at open-steam.org administrator caudium.org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
