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1. mntmn (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Aug-2021 12:44:32 CEST mntmn

   i would like to enhance my experience working in the (bash) shell. i am constantly losing parts of command history across terminals (are they overwriting the history file?) and i would like to keep a loooot more history.

   also i wonder if there's a shell that would let me reuse file references in earlier command outputs, i.e. turn the output of "ls" into actionable "handles". more like a lisp machine repl where these are objects.

   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 12-Aug-2021 12:44:32 CEST Wolf480pl

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     @mntmn by default, the history is saved when you exit a shell so whichever shell you exit last wins. You can enable histappend so that all tgese gistories get merged instead of overwriting each other, but if you don't also increase history limit by a lot, you'll keep losing stuff anyway

   • mntmn (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Aug-2021 12:44:32 CEST mntmn

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     • Wolf480pl

     @wolf480pl ok thanks, this is what i suspected (the overwriting)