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A configuration to maintain history across sessions and share it across terminals in ZShell
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# History Configuration
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HISTSIZE=5000 #How many lines of history to keep in memory
HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history #Where to save history to disk
SAVEHIST=5000 #Number of history entries to save to disk
#HISTDUP=erase #Erase duplicates in the history file
setopt appendhistory #Append history to the history file (no overwriting)
setopt sharehistory #Share history across terminals
setopt incappendhistory #Immediately append to the history file, not just when a term is killed
@tejeshvaish
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I switched from bash to zsh

@jimboelterchtr
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This totally made my day, thank you!

@zachliu
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zachliu commented Oct 28, 2022

for zinit users:

zinit snippet OMZP::history

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zkkv commented Jul 15, 2024

Hey. I use someone else's .zshrc config and there were two lines in it. The first one was #setopt SHARE_HISTORY and the second one was setopt sharehistory, like in your snippet. Do you know what the difference would be between the two?

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