On Tue 28 Jul 2015 10:06, Daniel Llorens <daniel.llor...@bluewin.ch> writes:
> The default history-length is 200. When one imports (ice-9 readline), > history is stifled to this value, so it doesn't matter if you set > history-length to a larger value later on. I'm surprised that this has > gone unnoticed up to now, since 200 is really small. I may be missing > something... > > The patch changes scm_readline_options() so that history is only > stiffled when the options are actually set. This is rather clumsy > since it means that if one doesn't set the options, history will never > be stifled. > > An alternative would be to add an optional readline-options argument > to activate-readline. That way one would be able to increase > history-length before the first time history is stifled, and otherwise > things would work as they do now. Thanks for the patch! Well why not. It's not perfect but it's an improvement. Thanks for giving this a poke; applied to master. Andy
