Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 14:32:36 -0700 From: Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> Cc: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ars Technica article on FreeBSD new user experience Message-ID: <7E83538A-9360-4B0D-9190-6E3A675C53DD@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200411004620.GL4213@funkthat.com> References: <CAPyFy2AVfEzey0%2B9-b8ZS1uyn8ODOoNhCHY7fHp2uc9ASiw%2BnA@mail.gmail.com> <CACNAnaF000ywitUn-HfqpFKZVXBtU78m=OXQXego9_0SxrT-jQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200410061248.GK4213@funkthat.com> <CACNAnaGhPML3vKwETS93aK9qzNLRiruJYA2OuwvOmS%2BafXVABw@mail.gmail.com> <20200411004620.GL4213@funkthat.com>
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> On Apr 10, 2020, at 5:46 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Kyle Evans wrote this message on Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 09:49 -0500:
=E2=80=A6
>> My memory here is incredibly hazy, it may be that I was scarred by
>> history not persisting at all across sessions or something like this;
>> I quickly installed zsh and never looked back.
>=20
> Yeah, history isn't kept by default, not sure if there's an option to
> keep it, if there is, I don't see it in the man page, and ctrl-r =
doesn't
> work either.
There is history support, but it=E2=80=99s not on by default and =
it=E2=80=99s not spelled the same way as other shells (I don=E2=80=99t =
think it=E2=80=99s persistent between shell invocations, however):
The following variables affect the execution of fc:
FCEDIT Name of the editor to use for history =
editing.
HISTSIZE The number of previous commands that are
accessible.
Given that the only other base system shell option is csh, I opt =
out of both and always install bash (I haven=E2=80=99t quite jumped on =
the zsh train yet).
Thanks,
-Enji=
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