Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Improve defaults

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 3:58 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 9:37 PM Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't make much sense to specify so many options when simple
> > defaults can do it.
>
> Personally speaking, I disapprove of almost every hunk of this
> patchset.  Side-effects upon existing uses of "fc -p" are not
> considered,

How are they not considered?

> nor are use cases involving SHARE_HISTORY, APPEND_HISTORY,
> INC_APPEND_HISTORY, and HIST_SAVE_NO_DUPS,

Once again, how are they not considered?

> Specifically with respect to the value of HISTFILE, the use of
> ".histfile" in zsh-newuser-install has always been a bit questionable
> and seems to assume a $ZDOTDIR exists ... a previous common practice
> was to use ~/.zhistory (although the only place that's codified is in
> the csh-to-zsh conversion script c2z).

That's not an argument in favor of having two different recommended
files. I personally don't care which is the recommended one, I just
think it should be the same in the FAQ and new-user-install.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras