Re: Saving/Recalling Shell Commands History?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 21.08.2006 um 23:32 schrieb Kevin Rodgers:

> >     Its value is "~/.history"
> >     Local in buffer *shell*; global value is
> >     "~/.emacs.d/PDesktop-23/history"
>
> So you have managed to change its global value, but not the value in
> the *shell* buffer.

Ahh! Now I understand how to understand this!

> >     Documentation:
> >     *If non-nil, name of the file to read/write input history.
> >     See also `comint-read-input-ring' and `comint-write-input-ring'.
> >         This variable is buffer-local, and is a good thing to set  
> > in mode hooks.
> >         You can /customize/ this variable.
> > When I comment the comint-input-ring-file-name setting line, its  
> > value is simply "~/.history."
>
> So leave it commented out, and put this in your ~/.emacs file:
>
> (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook
>           (lambda ()
>             (setq comint-input-ring-file-name ; buffer-local
>                   (expand-file-name "history" desktop-dirname))))

It works a bit:

        Its value is
        "/Users/pete/.emacs.d/PDesktop-22/history"
        Local in buffer *shell*; global value is nil

but, since I deleted ~/.tcsh_history I have /no/ history at all ...  
So the history file as set in .emacs and although it exists and  
although I set comint-input-ring-size to a big value is not read. And  
neither written in GNU Emacsen 22.0.50 nor 23.0.0 nor 21.2.


Enough to prepare a bug report?

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