Pedro, I can't find a bug report yet, but I have found some discussions about this. There are a lot of pros and cons with the different approaches. The 'problem' is mostly with bash's approach with managing multiple sessions (i.e. - it doesn't, nor should it). gnome-terminal can invoke bash in special ways to do different things with the history file and get different behaviors. However, as I understand it, the current setup for gnome-terminal emulates the behavior of being logged into simultaneous tty sessions.
Here are some postings about how to sync the history file between multiple terminals (however, I am not advocating them): http://fixunix.com/slackware/369510-bash_history-file.html http://briancarper.net/blog/keeping-bash-history-in-sync-on-disk-and-between-multiple-terminals http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2007-08/msg00016.html http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.bash.bug/browse_thread/thread/873e3e06f76c78c7/5d5d5e99945bcd69 The issue with trying to sync multiple sessions together is actually very messy. The question is *how* should they be synced? Should it be appended line-by-line? Or should the entire session be appened when the session finishes? Or should it be that the last session gets to have the file? What if a user has two different terminal emulators up, both using bash? What about a session within a session? Here are a couple of discussions about the issue: http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.bash.bug/browse_thread/thread/64587d478d40f84d/72b9f72bcba7e546 http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.bash.bug/browse_thread/thread/d10e25a877d92218/65dd823c150914b7 Now, I would like to quickly make a clarification within the description. When closing the second terminal and examining the history in the first terminal, the "history" command will have the first terminal history, because that is the history in memory for that terminal. However, what happens to the .bash_history file depends upon how that "in-memory" history is appended to the history file. On my current system (Fedora 11), it appears that each terminal's history is appened to the history file when the gnome-terminal is closed. I merely post this as a source of information for further discussion. I am not advocating any particular position, I am merely pointing out the non-obvious messiness that comes with the history feature. ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- gnome-terminal doesn't save the entire history if 2 are open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392871 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
