Fwd: idea for new feature (was: Re: sticky-note and zle bindings)

["Richard Hartmann" <richih.mailinglist@xxxxxxxxx>]

Forwarding for completeness as per Bart's implicit request :)


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From: Robert Knight <robertknight@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Jan 25, 2008 3:57 AM
Subject: Re: idea for new feature (was: Re: sticky-note and zle bindings)
To: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@xxxxxxxxx>


Hi,

> Well, that part would be for the shell to implement, anyway. But as
> most of the shells will not be terminated with ctrl-d/exit/logout there
> must be an option to store everything on shutdown automagically.

There is a misunderstanding.  By "end the session", I meant ending a
session and removing all data associated with it.  An analogy would be
the option not to save the tabs in a web browser when closing it.
Saving the session state would be the default behavior which would
occur when logging out of the X session or closing the shell by
sending SIGHUP for example.

Regards,
Robert.

On 24/01/2008, Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Jan 24, 2008 10:54 PM, Robert Knight <robertknight@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > I'd really rather not.  Three ways of doing something means at least
> > three more things to test and three more places for bugs to sprout.
>
> Well, that part would be for the shell to implement, anyway. But as
> most of the shells will not be terminated with ctrl-d/exit/logout there
> must be an option to store everything on shutdown automagically.
> Unless there is a reliable way to catch this, the shell would need
> to keep persistant copies of all data at all times.
>
>
> Richard
>