Re: [RP] ratpoison and libhistory support

[Jeremie Courreges-Anglas]

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Would you mourn the loss of libhistory support in ratpoison?
>>
>> ratpoison can optionally make use of this library to support !!-style
>> expansions, like in bash.  It's not a hassle to support, very little
>> code is involved ; but I think seldom users even know about it, I don't
>> find this useful myself.  If you already make use of this feature,
>> please speak up, otherwise it will probably hit the bin for next
>> release.

"T.J. Sellari" <address@hidden> writes:

> I use the exec command history. Does that depend on libhistory?

If you think about the ability of cycling through the input history
using Up/Down/C-p/C-n, then no, this feature is built into ratpoison.
The only change would be the removal of shortcuts such as !! (the latter
would get replaced by the previous history line).

I checked a few packages packages out there, Debian and OpenBSD don't
activate this support, Fedora does.

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