Subject: Re: bug#18439: [PATCH] guile-readline: Use the current directory if HOME is unset

From: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:26:38 -0400

severity 18439 wishlist
tags 18439 notabug
thanks

David Michael <[email-masked]> writes:

> * guile-readline/ice-9/readline.scm (history-file): When the HOME
>   environment variable is unset, use the current directory instead.
> ---
>  guile-readline/ice-9/readline.scm | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/guile-readline/ice-9/readline.scm b/guile-readline/ice-9/readline.scm
> index 02e68af..df2edaf 100644
> --- a/guile-readline/ice-9/readline.scm
> +++ b/guile-readline/ice-9/readline.scm
> @@ -119,7 +119,8 @@
>  (define-once the-readline-port #f)
>  
>  (define-once history-variable "GUILE_HISTORY")
> -(define-once history-file (string-append (getenv "HOME") "/.guile_history"))
> +(define-once history-file
> +  (string-append (or (getenv "HOME") ".") "/.guile_history"))
>  
>  (define-public readline-port
>    (let ((do (lambda (r/w)

Pushed to the stable-2.0 branch, commit
3a3316e200ac49f0e8e9004c233747efd9f54a04.
I'm closing this ticket now.

     Thanks!
       Mark