Thus spake Kyle Wheeler [11/04/07 @ 22.26.46 -0600]: > On Sunday, November 4 at 04:45 PM, quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > The save_history setting is supposed to tell mutt how many things to > > save in the history_file, right? Save_history is not working for me > > at all. No matter what I set it to, it only saves 10 commands. > > My guess is because you haven't set $history. According to the mutt > documentation: > > history > Type: number > Default: 10 > > This variable controls the size (in number of strings > remembered) of the string history buffer. The buffer is > cleared each time the variable is set. > > $save_history only affects the limit placed on the file, not the limit > mutt places on itself. Thus, $save_history is only used if > $save_history < $history (AND if $save_history > 0, but for an > entirely different reason).
OK, I will fiddle with $history. I did read that part of the manual, but $history has been around, while $save_history is new (I think), so I thought $save_history superceded $history, as a massive improvement (as in, "hey, now you're not limited to 10 commands, you can have as many as you want"). Also, the docs say that $history clears itself every time it's set, so I thought that with "set history=100" in the .muttrc, it would get cleared every time I started mutt, and would therefore behave exactly as I've been used to before rather than in the way I thought the new feature would work (i.e., saving as many commands as you want even when you quit mutt and start up again). > > mutt says that save_history=0. But it's not zero, it's 10, and it's > > also not what I told it to be. Am I doing something wrong? I > > checked the manual and the wiki, no dice. > > Ah, well, the thing the documentation leaves out here is that if > $save_history is 0, there is no limit to the size of the $history_file > (I think). Probably worth checking by setting save_history to 1, but I > *think* that's the way it works. I also noticed that not only does :set &save_history ?save_history return 0 when I set it to 100, but also, :set $history returns 10 even when I set it to 100. Either I've screwed up or mutt isn't reporting values correctly. -G
