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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option to remove duplicate command history entries
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 19:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sia7p97u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+C-WL8_HGSwiO5qWTw3rhYgCF0hwe5G2FzRk1xOwPaPJ6RGHw@mail.gmail.com>

> From: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 14:53:40 -0400
> Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> >> +@cindex remove duplicate history
> >> +@kindex set history remove-duplicates
> >> +@item set history remove-duplicates
> >> +@itemx set history remove-duplicates on
> >> +Remove duplicate history entries added during the current session.  Before a
> >
> > Given the description below, this summary is slightly misleading,
> > IMO.  Why not simply
> >
> >   Keep in history of CLI commands only one copy of each command.
> 
> How about I rewrite this section into:
> 
>  Keep in the command history list only one copy of each command.  If a new
>  command being added to the history list is a duplicate of an older one, the
>  older entry is removed from the list.  Only history entries added during the
>  current session are considered for removal.  This option is off by default.

Perfect, thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-04 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-04 16:22 Patrick Palka
2015-06-04 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-04 18:54   ` Patrick Palka
2015-06-04 19:25     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-06-09 18:10 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-09 18:41   ` Patrick Palka
2015-06-10 15:12     ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-19 23:33       ` Patrick Palka
2015-06-20  6:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-26 13:35         ` Patrick Palka
2015-06-26 14:18         ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-26 14:30           ` Patrick Palka
2015-06-26 14:50             ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-26 15:12         ` Patrick Palka

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