On 3/25/15 6:03 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > 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?
It's intended to illustrate that the issue is complex and that solutions are not simple. > 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? What do you mean "ignore its effect"? You have newlines embedded in history entries; what do you plan to do about them? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/