Oh, Robert, that is absolutely amazing. I appreciate very much your work. That would be a very good feature.
We wait for news! Thanks so much. Ramiro El 4 de julio de 2024 10:09:46 CEST, Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> escribió: > Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 12:39:42 +0200 > From: Ramiro Aceves <ea1...@gmail.com> > Message-ID: > <CANfMP77Pxq-Z1Du=iw12tee9aojma+xvhafqm3sdy4a+ecj...@mail.gmail.com> > > | Yes, months ago when I started playing with NetBSD I configured a > | HISTSIZE variable, and after that I set HISTFILE var but as it did not > | work I read the man page and did not see anything about the history > | file, so I started thinking that the feature was certainly missing. > >That's certainly right, it is currently. > >I'm not sure if anyone really wants it or not, but in the past couple of >days, I have turned some of my earlier imagining into code - what I have >now seems to be working OK, though I haven't done much in the way of testing >yet. > >There would be two new variables, HISTFILE which (kind of like what happens >to ENV) gets expanded (if required) to make a file name, when set, and if the >file named exists, and is a shell history file, gets read and its contents >appended to whatever history exists in the current shell (each time it is >set that would happen). If it is set when the shell exits, the history >buffer will be written to it. > >And HISTAPPEND which can be set to a string which represents a boolean >value (true/false yes/no on/off 1/0) - if set to a value indicating true, >then as each command is completed it will be written to the HISTFILE >(and if still set to a true value, then the shell won't write to >the file at exit, as everything should already be there). The intent >(which I haven't tested yet) would be that in this case the same file >could be shared by multiple shells, and collect history from all. > >If this is likely to be of some general interest, I could do some more >testing to make sure it works properly, and commit it (for HEAD, and >eventually NetBSD 11 - this isn't something I'd pull up to -10). > >kre >
