Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 23:46:17 -0800 From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Torsten Blum <torstenb@vmunix.org>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, shige@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zsh re-org Message-ID: <20000212234617.J776@norn.ca.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002121901070.5844-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>; from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu on Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:12:40PM -0800 References: <20000212121956.B11463@shadow.blackdawn.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002121901070.5844-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:12:40PM -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote:
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>
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Will Andrews wrote:
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> > [ Annelise: what do you mean, "keep the user's history"? Did you look at
> > the zshall/zshenv manpages? I keep user history with env. vars. ]
>
> What I've got in the .zshrc is the following:
>
> PS1="%m %t %6c %# "
> SAVEHIST=1000
> HISTFILE="$HOME/.history"
> export HISTFILE
> export APPEND_HISTORY=1
> alias su='fc -W $HOME/.history && \su -m'
> export HISTORY=$HOME/.history
>
> I then have a symbolic link in /root from .history to
> /usr/local/home/andrsn/.history. This works so that when I su
> to root, the up arrow recalls commands issued as andrsn. It
> also changes the last element of the prompt from % to #, and
> the rest of the PS1 line works as well (machine, time, location).
Um. I just tested what you have above and it's working perfectly
with zsh-3.1.6. Not *that* much has changed. BTW, thanks! I really
like that setup :-). (except the PS1, but that's just my taste).
-Chris
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