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Re: Bug#183730: zsh: setting SAVEHIST breaks history saving without warning



> (Why does this `break history saving'?  Or is the subject line
> inaccurate?  I'll assume the latter for now.)

I think he set SAVEHIST to some enormously large value which wrapped to
0, and thus the saving of his history was "broken", without a clear
indication why.

> The number assigned is obviously too large to be directly useful; what
> was the intention?  Always save values at the end of the history list
> regardless of what was there already?

Perhaps.  Tollef, could you elaborate?



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