On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:08:46PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Grigorios Bouzakis <[email protected]> [090428 17:30]: > > Well, is that the way it's suposed to work? > > The --disable-history option doesnt make sense if history is kept no > > matter what. > > Said shortly: > > readline's libhistory is no longer needed to have a history, but for > libhistory's events and designators. > > Said not so shortly: > > ratpoison now has a built-in basic history handling (mostly due to > enable having different histories for different things[1]). > > This new history handling supports almost everything the one did without > libhistory, except history expansion. > > With the old code, you could do: > > C-t :echo hallo > C-t :echo !! > > and it was equivalent to entering > > C-t :echo hallo > C-t :echo echo hallo > > you can also do more complex things like > > C-t :echo bla > C-t :^a^ub^ > > which is equivalent to > > C-t :echo bla > C-t :echo blub > > and all the other things in (history.info.gz)History Interaction. > > With the new history code, this is disable by default, but you can get > it back with > > C-t :set historyexpansion 1 > > which will reenable that feature when ratpoison was compiled with > libhistory[2], and output an error if ratpoison was compiled without > libhistory. > > Hochachtungsvoll, > Bernhard R. Link > > [1] see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478977 > [2] as implementing all those things like "!fi:2" meaning > "the second argument of the most recent command starting with the > letters `fi'" is already implemented there and I doubt anyone actually > uses it. >
So how do i get the pre 1.4.4 history behaviour back? How do can i get ratpoison to not keep any history at all? Setting historysize 0 doesnt work. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Ratpoison-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ratpoison-devel
