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Re: revisiting history-file rewriting



On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:15:37PM +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Appending to the history writes in place, too, though, doesn't it?  Or
> at least incremental appending does?

This option pertains to when the file is rewritten, which some modes
only do accasionally (the incremental appending modes) and others do for
their entire update strategy.

> Maybe HIST_SAVE_BY_COPY, defaulting to on?

Hmm.  That's pretty good.  The docs could clarify that the "SAVE" part
just refers to when the file is rewritten, and does not affect
incremental appending.

..wayne..



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