Re: Persistent history not working

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> * Frank Terbeck (Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:23:45 +0100)
> > Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > I have one Windows 2003 R2 SP1 Terminal Server running zsh under 
> > > Cygwin (all latest versions[1]). It uses the same .zshrc as all my 
> > > other installation but for some reason history is not saved across 
> > > sessions.

I didn't quite get this, when I first read your mail, sorry. Does this
mean, history saving does work for you on other operating systems? If
so, my babbling here is useless. :-)
See Bart's reply then.

> > > This is what I tried: deleted all zsh config files and set manually 
> > > "HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history". No success.
> > [...]
> > > What else could I do or try to find the reason for this behaviour?
> > 
> > Before looking any further, could you check if this FAQ entry helps?
> >     <http://zsh.sunsite.dk/FAQ/zshfaq03.html#l38>
> 
> Yeah, I did that. As far as I remember HISTSIZE and HISTFILE have 
> defaults so they don't need to be set manually. But I definitely set 
> them in my .zshrc.

As for the default values:

[snip]
% zsh -fc 'print -$SAVEHIST- -$HISTSIZE- -$HISTFILE-'
-0- -30- --
[snap]

If you set HISTFILE and HISTSIZE, that's fine (and for HISTFILE it's
even required); As you can see however, $SAVEHIST is 0 by default,
which means, nothing will be saved.

Regards, Frank

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