Re: Two documentation nits regarding multiline history files

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/4/25 5:00 PM, Jens Schmidt wrote:

> - The manual says w.r.t. HISTFILESIZE:
>
>      HISTFILESIZE
>        The maximum number of lines contained in the history file.  When
>        this  variable  is  assigned  a value, the history file is trun‐
>        cated, if necessary, to contain no  more  than  that  number  of
>        lines  by removing the oldest entries.
>
>    Which is IMO not true for multiline history files:
>    + truncation does not count the timestamp lines against the limit
>    + truncation, at least on the devel branch, rounds up the number
>      of lines so that the truncated history starts with a timestamp
>      line (thanks for fixing this)

I think this can be clarified by simply stating that the history file is
truncated to $HISTFILESIZE history entries.

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