Re[2]: history -s from inside function replaces last command rather than adding to it

[Bug Maybefound]

The second part was just recently added to the doc.  Why wasn’t it there 
before?


------ Original Message ------
> From "Chet Ramey" <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To "Dale R. Worley" <worley@alum.mit.edu>; bugbash@89vx.net; 
bug-bash@gnu.org
Cc chet.ramey@case.edu
Date 12/16/2024 4:46:21 PM
Subject Re: history -s from inside function replaces last command rather 
than adding to it

> On 12/16/24 9:36 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> > Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:
> > > Yes:
> > >
> > >           -s     Store the args in the history list  as  a  single  entry.
> > >                  The  last  command  in the history list is removed before
> > >                  adding the args.
> > >
> > > That last command is usually `history -s args'.
> >
> > What is the point of "history -s args", then?  What is it useful for?
>
> To add arbitrary data to the history list, for whatever reason a user
> likes. I think the documentation is fairly clear on that.
>
> -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/