Re: history-search-backward clobbers history

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jun 27 2024, Chet Ramey wrote:

> It took me a long time to figure this out, and it's completely dependent
> on this particular set of data. You have `histappend' set (it's set by
> default, but this would happen anyway because you have fewer history lines
> added during that shell session than are in the history list). Bash adds
> four commands to the history list during this session, starting with the
> `echo 21234' (it doesn't know about readline's changes to the history
> list). It appends those four commands to the history file, which happens to
> leave the `echo 3456' unchanged -- coincidentally the first history entry
> changed by moving around the history list and editing.

So what did change in 5.3 that this is now broken?

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