Re: [PATCH] bash-4.2-release-with-unlimited-history-by-crq.diff
On 11/8/12 8:17 PM, cheng renquan wrote:
>> I'd rather see this done (and have adapted your previous code submission to
>> do so) in a separate program that links with the history library and can
>> operate on arbitrary history files outside of bash. There are applications
>> besides bash that use readline, save history, and could benefit.
>
> while the current erasedups logic is implemented in bash, I want this
> also get into bash,
> we may define another control like "erasedupsinfile" if the user set
> that we will erase dups in history file as well
>
> HISTCONTROL=ignorespace:ignoredups:erasedups:erasedupsinfile
>
>
> if we contribute a binary to dedup in history file, we still need the
> logic to call it automatically, depending some similar control
> variable is set
With a separate program, you can call it whenever you want. If you want it
to work on the entire current shell history, write a shell function akin to
this:
deep_dedup()
{
history -w /tmp/history.$$
hist_erasedups -t /tmp/history.$$
history -r /tmp/history.$$
rm -f /tmp/history.$$
}
You can have it called from PROMPT_COMMAND, for example, under whatever
conditions you like.
Chet
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
Hitting Esc twice auto-completes
Hi. If you are in regular emacs mode in Bash, and you hit Esc twice, it acts as an auto-complete, similar to just hitting tab. I cannot find this behaviour in any of the system wide bash defaults in /etc, or any of my own dotfiles. An op on Freenode.#bash confirmed it happened on his too, and he uses "GNU bash, version 4.2.39(2)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)". His is far more recent version than mine. Thanks in advance. -- smu johnson
Re: Hitting Esc twice auto-completes
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:40 AM, smu johnson wrote: > Hi. > > If you are in regular emacs mode in Bash, and you hit Esc twice, it acts as > an auto-complete, similar to just hitting tab. > > I cannot find this behaviour in any of the system wide bash defaults in > /etc, or any of my own dotfiles. > $ bind -p | grep 'complete$' "\C-i": complete "\e\e": complete $ Not sure if \e\e is on by default but if you want to disable it: $ bind -r '\e\e' $bind -p | grep 'complete$' "\C-i": complete $ > > An op on Freenode.#bash confirmed it happened on his too, and he uses "GNU > bash, version 4.2.39(2)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)". His is far more > recent version than mine. > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > smu johnson >
Re: Hitting Esc twice auto-completes
On 11/20/12 5:40 PM, smu johnson wrote: > Hi. > > If you are in regular emacs mode in Bash, and you hit Esc twice, it acts as > an auto-complete, similar to just hitting tab. Yes. Readline has behaved this way for many years, since at least bash-1.14. It's present for compatibility with ksh (first ksh88, then ksh93). Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
