Re: Feature freeze and Tramp?

[Luc Teirlinck]

Kai Grossjohann wrote:
   
   Really?  Below, you say that `unset HISTFILE' works...  Note that the
   spot we're talking about here is in the correct shell already.

Remember that one apparently has to _export_ HISTFILE at that spot.

`unset HISTFILE' works in the shell in which you execute it, but if
you start a subshell, the subshell will re-initialize HISTFILE to its
default value.  If you do `HISTFILE= ; export HISTFILE', the subshell
will not re-initialize HISTFILE, which will remain null.  At least all of
this is the case for bash, including when invoked as sh or `bash --posix'.
Solaris2.8' sh does not seem to keep history at all.

Sincerely,

Luc.