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From: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (TYNOR,STEPHEN D.)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: another History suggestion
Message-ID: <1847@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 14 Sep 89 19:38:07 GMT
Reply-To: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (TYNOR,STEPHEN D.)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In the spirit of recent postings suggesting that certain items be left
off the history stack (via string length or pattern match), I'd like
to suggest that a line not be pushed onto the stack if it is identical
to the previous command (this makes ^R, ^S searches more reasonable).
Since this would not be consistent with csh (how about ksh?) history,
I 'spose a variable to enable this feature would be in order.

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Progress means replacing something wrong with something more subtly wrong.
                     
    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
    Artificial Intelligence Branch
    tynor@prism.gatech.edu