Re: [OT] Not clobbering bash history

[Emanuel Berg]

mbork wrote:

>> That makes a kind of sense, but what I would envision is
>> that each Bash process has its own history with only the
>> commands of that process.
>>
>> Why do you prefer the shared history file approach to the
>> one-history-per-process approach?
>
> Isn't it obvious? If I have several terminals open at the
> same time (and I seldom have fewer than, say, three, usually
> more), sharing history is very useful. It easy to remember
> that I issued some kind of command, but much more difficult
> to remember in which terminal I did it. Sharing history
> lessens my cognitive load.

How do you access history? One item at a time?

Because if you do one task in one terminal, maybe vading
through history one item at a time will then be annoying since
items from everywhere else, from other tasks, will make you
have to cycle a lot before you find what you look for?

Not saying you are wrong, just the discussion can go both ways.
I'm not a history user myself, really, but my zsh history
isn't shared between tmux panes. Not in xterm, not in the
Linux console.

But I never gave it any thought until now.

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