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Lossage in comint history

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Message #20 received at 5148-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 5148-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lossage in comint history
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:45:32 -0500

> Using M-x shell in Emacs causes lossage in .bash_history.
>
> I set HISTFILESIZE and HISTSIZE to large values in .bashrc
> to not truncate the history file but comint.el disregards
> my settings and truncates the history file used by bash.
>
> The following patch make `comint-input-ring-size' customizable.  The
> type should be `integer' because this value is used by `make-ring' to
> create the history ring.  The default value increased to 500 to be the
> same as the default value of HISTFILESIZE and HISTSIZE.

Looks reasonable enough to me.  Checked in, thanks.

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