As Trey Jackson said, you want to put this: (savehist-mode) in your Emacs start up file, then restart Emacs. (Calling it interactively will stomp on your current mini-buffer history, so you may not want to do that.) It’s also worth pointing out that you can persist other variables across sessions by adding them to savehist-additional-variables, … Read more
It looks like a problem in the transcription process. There is a similar problem in DR 42, where the greater than sign is doubled: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/docs/rr/dr_042.html
As far as I know, it is not possible to do what you want. I see this as a bug in bash’s history processing that could be improved. export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups # no duplicate entries shopt -s histappend # append history file export PROMPT_COMMAND=”history -a” # update histfile after every command This will keep the in … Read more
They are based on regular languages.
cat ~/.bash_history would also work, although I tend to just use vim ~/.bash_history and then use /to search
git checkout <commit> <filename>
Lammert Bies explains both their usage and the history behind. 28 – FS – File separator The file separator FS is an interesting control code, as it gives us insight in the way that computer technology was organized in the sixties. We are now used to random access media like RAM and magnetic disks, but … Read more
The general rule to maintaining blame history is to make a separate move commit first before any edits. It has been my experience that this allows git blame to work without the need for the -C option. So in the case of splitting the file up into new files, this can be done in two … Read more
Hit Ctrl+R, type some letters, it will find the previous command with these letters, keep hitting Ctrl+R to continue through the previous findings. Works in bash, zsh (and other shells i suppose). What i personally like to have is: type some letters, press Up, the previous commands starting with the same letters appear. Very powerful, … Read more
Short Answer The ubiquitous semicolon command terminator ; is actually shorthand for the \g command, which is in itself shorthand for the go command. The go command is used both historically and currently in other flavours of SQL to submit batches of commands to be compiled and / or interpretted by the server. The \G … Read more