Fixing macOS Zsh Terminal History Settings • Hacker News Board

Re: Fixing macOS Zsh Terminal History Settings

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Post by LucasLarson » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 5:40 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #20

This is zsh specific, but here's something I've been burned by enough times that I specifically wanted to mention it: save your history in a file other than the default one. Why? Because if you increase the history limit, and your profile isn't sourced for any reason, the shell will read your history file and use the default history size, clobbering everything that's there. If you use a non-default history file this…

Zsh doesn’t actually have a default history-file location:⁰

HISTFILE The file to save the history in when an interactive shell exits. If unset, the history is not saved.

0. https://web.archive.org/web/20221012011928id_/zsh.sourceforg...

Re: Fixing macOS Zsh Terminal History Settings

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Post by Scarbutt » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 7:27 PM UTC

opk wrote: post #49

Scarbutt wrote: post #9

Does someone knows of some config to make zsh behave similar to bash for interactive use?

Many things are similar. What differences bother a particular user will vary. In many cases, zsh's approach is better so the value of crippling it is questionable. A common example is not splitting variables at spaces which is much better if you might have filenames with spaces in but it helps if you bother to learn to use arrays. Another example is the behaviour when wildcards don't match any files. Bash leaves the…

Yeah need to look more into how to configure zsh, I'm accustomed to the way bash does things by default. Quickly of the top of my head are getting a pager with multiple columns of output when listing the files of dirs with many files and the readline behavior of deleting directories instead of whole paths when pressing M-backspace.

Re: Fixing macOS Zsh Terminal History Settings

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Post by Scarbutt » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 10:42 PM UTC

computerfriend wrote: post #30

Scarbutt wrote: post #9

Does someone knows of some config to make zsh behave similar to bash for interactive use?

I guess you'll have to elaborate on "similar". What are the differences that you want to resolve? I followed Apple's migration to Zsh and configured it to be Bash-like, at least enough for me to not notice the difference.

My google is failing, have a link to this migration document?

Re: Fixing macOS Zsh Terminal History Settings

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Post by dolmen » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 7:47 AM UTC

Default settings on Monterey:

    $ grep -i HIST /etc/zshrc 
    # Save command history
    HISTFILE=${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_history
    HISTSIZE=2000
    SAVEHIST=1000

Re: Fixing macOS Zsh Terminal History Settings

#65

Post by kuschkufan » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 9:20 AM UTC

Well HISTFILESIZE is not a valid zsh variable, afaik. But the others are and they work fine. That alias does nothing besides listing history since the beginning, though it misses the first entry and should be "history 0".

Re: Fixing macOS Zsh Terminal History Settings

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Post by dolmen » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 1:56 PM UTC

computerfriend wrote: post #30

Scarbutt wrote: post #9

Does someone knows of some config to make zsh behave similar to bash for interactive use?

I guess you'll have to elaborate on "similar". What are the differences that you want to resolve? I followed Apple's migration to Zsh and configured it to be Bash-like, at least enough for me to not notice the difference.

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