> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:10:58PM -0400, Jared Yanovich wrote: > + If first and last are both omitted, the previous 16 commands shall > be listed or the previous single command shall be edited (based on the > -l option). > > that kind of suggests that the "fc -l" producing those "previous 16 > commands" should not show up as part of them, but it's arguable.
FWIW, I think the current behaviour makes sense. For some sort of analogy, it's like pgrep not showing the pgrep process. I see no big gain in changing this, and potential annoyance. Not that I can't remember when I last used 'history' or 'fc -l'... /Alexander
