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3 total messages Started by TYNOR,STEPHEN D. Thu, 14 Sep 1989 19:38

#589

Author: TYNOR,STEPHEN D.
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 19:38

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In the spirit of recent postings suggesting that certain items be left
off the history stack (via string length or pattern match), I'd like
to suggest that a line not be pushed onto the stack if it is identical
to the previous command (this makes ^R, ^S searches more reasonable).
Since this would not be consistent with csh (how about ksh?) history,
I 'spose a variable to enable this feature would be in order.

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Progress means replacing something wrong with something more subtly wrong.
                     
    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
    Artificial Intelligence Branch
    tynor@prism.gatech.edu

Re: another History suggestion

#592

Author: James J Dempsey
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 23:13

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>> From: "TYNOR,STEPHEN D." <prism!tynor@gatech.edu>

>> In the spirit of recent postings suggesting that certain items be left
>> off the history stack (via string length or pattern match), I'd like
>> to suggest that a line not be pushed onto the stack if it is identical
>> to the previous command (this makes ^R, ^S searches more reasonable).

I think this is an excellent idea.  The Symbolics command processor
uses this approach and I like it a lot.  If you do 10 "ps" commands in
a row you don't have to ^P 10 times to get to the command before that.

		--Jim Dempsey--
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Re: another History suggestion

#608

Author: Ian! D. Allen [CGL]
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 07:08

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I once wrote a shell that didn't put a command in the history if the
command line started with a blank.  Thus, my shell didn't need to keep
any arbitrary list of non-history-able commands.
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
 129.97.128.64    Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada

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