bug#2989: marked as done (history-delete-duplicates does not apply to command history)

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and subject line Re: bug#2989: history-delete-duplicates does not apply to 
command history
has caused the Emacs bug report #2989,
regarding history-delete-duplicates does not apply to command history
to be marked as done.

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> implement bash's ignoredups
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> Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:00:17 +0800
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> M-p (translated from <escape> p) runs the command previous-history-element
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> Which gets rather frustrating when one runs into a long patch of the
> same command, e.g.,
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> (compile "make" nil)
> (compile "make" nil)
> (compile "make" nil)
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> That's because emacs hasn't implement bash's ignoredups:
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>        HISTCONTROL
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>               ...value of
>               ignoredups causes lines matching the previous history
>               entry to not be saved...A value of erasedups
>               causes all previous lines matching the current line to be
>               removed from the history list before that line is saved.
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> Note I'm not talking about the *shell* buffer, but instead
> repeat-complex-command's previous-history-element etc.
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> Re: bug#2989: history-delete-duplicates does not apply to command history
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> Date: 
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> Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:09:54 -0700 (PDT)
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> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
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>   > >> > You probably want to open another bug saying that
>   > >> I'll just hopefully hereby reopen and retitle this one.
>   > >> > history-delete-duplicates does not apply to command history.
>   > >> (OK, but not sure you don't want two independent variables...)
>   > >> > You can try this (not even compile tested) patch:
>   > >> > --- callint.c.~1.172.~ Tue Mar 31 16:28:30 2009
>   > >> (Please test for me, I don't own a c-compiler here :-) )
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>   > > The patch needed an extra declaration to compile, and it seems to work 
> fine.
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>   > > I am not sure if it's acceptable to check in such a change at this point
>   > > in the release process.
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>   > Yes, it's fine, thank you, please install it.
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> Done.
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