On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 3:38 AM, jkn <[email protected]> wrote:

I haven't been particularly following the discussion about toggle-split
> direction, but I think I see things a little different to you.
>
​
Maybe ;-)​

The Bash history facility (for example) use a file (~/.bash-history by
> default) which stores the last N commands entered. So I had in mind
> something similar, which could be loaded at the start of a session,
> maintained as commands are entered and executed, and saved before exit. I
> would keep the number of commands stored relatively small (N = 50 or 100,
> perhaps).
>
> The 'problem' then would be: how, at the start of a session say, would the
> commands in @data command-history be 'reconciled' with the contents of the
> .history file? One could imagine them being concatenated, but other schemes
> are possible, and I am not sure there is a definitively best answer.
>
​
Imo, settings are incompatible with automatic operation.  Settings promise
stability. Updating them automagically breaks that promise.

Imo, the history settings are good enough. I have no plans to replace them.

Edward

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