Re: Colon-prompt (:) command history contains only one entry

[Stephane Chazelas]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 02:43:51PM -0500, Ethan Mallove wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use the ":at" command often in Screen, but it seems my history for
> ":" commands contains only a single entry (accessible by hitting the
> UpArrow at the ":" prompt). Is there a way to increase this limit?
> E.g., a variable to tweak in the source code? I'm using Screen version
> 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06.
[...]

No, but I remember someone sending a patch for that some time
ago: http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.screen.user/2005-03/msg00008.html

Note: I've not tried that patch myself. And there might be
others as it's true it's one of the features many people would
expect to find in screen.

Cheers,
Stéphane