Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 22:12:40 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> Cc: Torsten Blum <torstenb@vmunix.org>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, shige@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zsh re-org Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002121901070.5844-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000212121956.B11463@shadow.blackdawn.com>
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Will Andrews wrote: > [ Annelise: what do you mean, "keep the user's history"? Did you look at > the zshall/zshenv manpages? I keep user history with env. vars. ] What I've got in the .zshrc is the following: PS1="%m %t %6c %# " SAVEHIST=1000 HISTFILE="$HOME/.history" export HISTFILE export APPEND_HISTORY=1 alias su='fc -W $HOME/.history && \su -m' export HISTORY=$HOME/.history I then have a symbolic link in /root from .history to /usr/local/home/andrsn/.history. This works so that when I su to root, the up arrow recalls commands issued as andrsn. It also changes the last element of the prompt from % to #, and the rest of the PS1 line works as well (machine, time, location). I suppose I could read these manpages and figure out the new stuff, assume it's capable at all, but then I would have spent quite a lot of time for the same functionality I have now. One could argue that a new (developmental) version hasn't been around as long and doesn't have the same variety of support documents available for it that a "release" version has--not just the manual pages but other stuff as well. Since there is a cost in time to changing versions, there's an argument for sticking with "release" until the community that supports this shell abandons it for a new version. But this is just my view, and I can manage regardless. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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