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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Bug report/wishlist
Message-ID: <1949@prune.bbn.com>
Date: 12 Sep 89 16:10:09 GMT
References: <4823@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <8909112359.AA16831@aurel.caltech.edu>
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In <8909112359.AA16831@aurel.caltech.edu> bfox@aurel.caltech.edu writes:
>Maybe a shell variable which contains a space separated list of words to
>ignore (history wise) if they appear at the beginning of a line?
It should probably be a colon-separated list.  Another option might be to
not put a command on the history list if it's less than HISTORY_MIN
characters long.

>     File completion should ignore some files, (e.g. ~ .o) -- a variable?
>This will happen, I just haven't placed into the release code yet.
I'd like to see a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore, as
in "EXPAND_IGNORE=*.o:*.BAK:*~:core"
	/r$
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