About Zsh (June 28, 2011)

I have used bash for over ten years. I just got a little curious and decided to study the competitor zsh.

I think it has a killer feature: shared history. The previous commands will be shared between instance of zsh. I find this very handy since I always run several shell with scree. The following lines turn it on:

# History sharing and huge size
HISTSIZE=10000
SAVEHIST=10000
HISTFILE=~/.history
setopt share_history
setopt append_history

I am not sure I will switch to zsh but it's interesting to change things a bit.

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