Re: save_history not working

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday, November  4 at 04:45 PM, quoth dv1445@xxxxxxxxx:
> The save_history setting is supposed to tell mutt how many things to 
> save in the history_file, right?  Save_history is not working for me 
> at all.  No matter what I set it to, it only saves 10 commands.

My guess is because you haven't set $history. According to the mutt 
documentation:

     history
         Type: number
         Default: 10

         This variable controls the size (in number of strings
         remembered) of the string history buffer. The buffer is
         cleared each time the variable is set.

$save_history only affects the limit placed on the file, not the limit 
mutt places on itself. Thus, $save_history is only used if 
$save_history < $history (AND if $save_history > 0, but for an 
entirely different reason).

> mutt says that save_history=0.  But it's not zero, it's 10, and it's 
> also not what I told it to be.  Am I doing something wrong?  I 
> checked the manual and the wiki, no dice.

Ah, well, the thing the documentation leaves out here is that if 
$save_history is 0, there is no limit to the size of the $history_file 
(I think). Probably worth checking by setting save_history to 1, but I 
*think* that's the way it works.

Hope that helps,
~Kyle
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