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adambyrtek on June 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s

I prefer a middle ground, in which entries from multiple sessions are interleaved in the history file, but individual in-memory histories don't reflect what happened in other sessions in the meantime.

For future reference, I use the following Zsh history options:

  setopt incappendhistory
  setopt extendedhistory
  setopt histignorespace
  setopt histignoredups

sliverstorm on June 7, 2012 [–]

I think what would be slickest is if up-arrow and down-arrow navigate local history, but history-search would navigate all history... I wonder if I can make it do that.

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