prezto/modules/history/README.md

History

Sets history options and defines history aliases.

Variables

• HISTFILE stores the path to the history file.
• HISTSIZE stores the maximum number of events to save in the internal history.
• SAVEHIST stores the maximum number of events to save in the history file.

Options

• BANG_HIST treats the ! character specially during expansion.
• EXTENDED_HISTORY writes the history file in the :start:elapsed;command format.
• INC_APPEND_HISTORY writes to the history file immediately, not when the shell exits.
• SHARE_HISTORY shares history between all sessions.
• HIST_EXPIRE_DUPS_FIRST expires a duplicate event first when trimming history.
• HIST_IGNORE_DUPS does not record an event that was just recorded again.
• HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS deletes an old recorded event if a new event is a duplicate.
• HIST_FIND_NO_DUPS does not display a previously found event.
• HIST_IGNORE_SPACE does not record an event starting with a space.
• HIST_SAVE_NO_DUPS does not write a duplicate event to the history file.
• HIST_VERIFY does not execute immediately upon history expansion.
• HIST_BEEP beeps when accessing non-existent history.

Aliases

• history-stat lists the ten most used commands

Authors

The authors of this module should be contacted via the issue tracker.

• Robby Russell
• Sorin Ionescu