On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 16:21 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00042.html Maybe I've missed something but that thread basically just discussed the same issue without giving a solution, right?
I understand you concerns about any format changes, that's why my idea was to allow "lithist" set but ignore it's effect when the history file is written... wouldn't that work out? Cheers, Chris.