Re: disable shell history, was: .sh_history problem

2001-04-12 Thread Tom_Roche
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12 Apr 2001 17:30:49 +0200 Anyway, could somebody with a ksh try various things to turn off its history? How soon they forget :-) http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-rcp@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de/ has a thread ".sh_history problem" that started Sat, 17 Mar 2001. It has 9 posts

Re: disable shell history, was: .sh_history problem

2001-04-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
For example, what happens if we do "HISTSIZE=0" in addition to "unset HISTFILE"? IIRC I tried that, and it didn't work: ksh made temp files. Have you tried /dev/null ? Also since the current code doesn't use here-documents any more, your .sh_history file should grow much slower now (it

Re: disable shell history, was: .sh_history problem

2001-04-12 Thread Kai Großjohann
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Tom Roche wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12 Apr 2001 17:30:49 +0200 For example, what happens if we do "HISTSIZE=0" in addition to "unset HISTFILE"? IIRC I tried that, and it didn't work: ksh made temp files. What was their size? So should HISTFILE be left at a default