Re: Saving/Recalling Shell Commands History?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 21.08.2006 um 22:17 schrieb Drew Adams:

>     Although I have set comint-input-ring-file-name, this file  
> never gets
>     written.
>
> Did you set it locally in the shell buffer (mode)? The doc string  
> says this:
>
>  "This variable is buffer-local, and is a good thing to
>   set in mode hooks."

No. I found it in a *customise* buffer and set it there first.

> What is the value of comint-input-ring-file-name in your shell  
> buffer if you don't ever explicitly set it?

Now, edited to fit into a system of a handful Emacsen, it is set as:

        '(comint-input-ring-file-name (concat desktop-dirname "/history"))

Desktop-dirname is defined in .emacs. In recent GNU Emacs 23 the  
variable's value is described as:

        comint-input-ring-file-name is a variable defined in `comint.el'.
        Its value is "~/.history"
        Local in buffer *shell*; global value is
        "~/.emacs.d/PDesktop-23/history"
        Documentation:
        *If non-nil, name of the file to read/write input history.
        See also `comint-read-input-ring' and `comint-write-input-ring'.
        
	This variable is buffer-local, and is a good thing to set in mode  
hooks.
        
        You can /customize/ this variable.

When I comment the comint-input-ring-file-name setting line, its  
value is simply "~/.history."

I retrieved the values by pasting comint-input-ring-file-name into  
*shell* buffer and pressing C-h v.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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