Re: ratpoison-1.4.4 history

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:08:46PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Grigorios Bouzakis <[email protected]> [090428 17:30]:
> > Well, is that the way it's suposed to work?
> > The --disable-history option doesnt make sense if history is kept no
> > matter what.
> 
> Said shortly:
> 
> readline's libhistory is no longer needed to have a history, but for
> libhistory's events and designators.
> 
> Said not so shortly:
> 
> ratpoison now has a built-in basic history handling (mostly due to
> enable having different histories for different things[1]).
> 
> This new history handling supports almost everything the one did without
> libhistory, except history expansion.
> 
> With the old code, you could do:
> 
> C-t :echo hallo
> C-t :echo !!
> 
> and it was equivalent to entering
> 
> C-t :echo hallo
> C-t :echo echo hallo
> 
> you can also do more complex things like
> 
> C-t :echo bla
> C-t :^a^ub^
> 
> which is equivalent to
> 
> C-t :echo bla
> C-t :echo blub
> 
> and all the other things in (history.info.gz)History Interaction.
> 
> With the new history code, this is disable by default, but you can get
> it back with
> 
> C-t :set historyexpansion 1
> 
> which will reenable that feature when ratpoison was compiled with
> libhistory[2], and output an error if ratpoison was compiled without
> libhistory.
> 
> Hochachtungsvoll,
> 	Bernhard R. Link
> 
> [1] see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478977
> [2] as implementing all those things like "!fi:2" meaning
> "the second argument of the most recent command starting with the
> letters `fi'" is already implemented there and I doubt anyone actually
> uses it.
> 

So how do i get the pre 1.4.4 history behaviour back?
How do can i get ratpoison to not keep any history at all?
Setting historysize 0 doesnt work.

-- 
Greg