Subject: bug#66700: 30.0.50; Some history is missing with multiple eshell buffers

From: Sean Whitton <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 12:43:45 +0000

Hello,

On Tue 14 Nov 2023 at 02:32pm +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> From: Liu Hui <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 12:40:00 +0800
>>
>> Since Eshell can append new history now, I think it makes sense to
>> change the default behavior from overwriting to appending, i.e., using
>> '(eshell-write-history nil t)' in eshell-exit-hook and
>> eshell-save-some-history. WDYT?
>
> IMO, this is too soon to change the default behavior in incompatible
> ways.  We need to wait for a while, perhaps at least one major
> release, before we do that.

This is fair enough.  It would be really useful to have the default
behaviour now for those of used to it from other shells, though -- Liu,
perhaps you would be interested in adding a defcustom?

-- 
Sean Whitton