Prezto: HISTFILE defaults to .zhistory rather than .zsh_history
Description
When migrating from oh-my-zsh I lost my history and didn't initially understand why.
oh-my-zsh uses .zsh_history for history, see lib/history.zsh
Expected behavior
By default, without configuration, I should be able to continue using my existing history file .zsh_history.
Actual behavior
The prezto history modules defaults HISTFILE to .zhistory
Steps to Reproduce
Versions
- Prezto commit: 2d6205e71404704eecc4f402e5b09d7cbd19bab7
- ZSH version: zsh 5.7.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin18.2.0)
- OS information: macOS 10.14.6
tekumara
All 9 comments
Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately, I don't think we will end up doing this... it doesn't make sense to support an alternative default location for the HISTFILE because we're two different frameworks. If you want to use a different HISTFILE, you can set that variable manually. We honor that variable when it is manually set.
I'd also rather optimize for usage rather than setup... and I don't want to introduce either a dynamic HISTFILE variable that changes depending on which files exist... or change the default to something other than what our users have had for many years.
belak
on 10 Dec 2019
Maybe a note in modules/history/README.md would help avoid surprises?
tekumara
on 10 Dec 2019
That seems reasonable. Might even be good to have a “migrating from OMZ doc”.
belak
on 10 Dec 2019
Added some basic documentation to modules/history/README.md. Thanks for the suggestion!
belak
on 20 Jan 2020
Thanks @belak !
tekumara
on 22 Jan 2020
FYI: ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_history is also the default set on macOS in /etc/zshrc
tekumara
on 1 Jun 2020
Ah, interesting, it might be worth changing then. Thanks for following up!
belak
on 1 Jun 2020
👍
I did a little more research and took a look at ubuntu. History saving isn't configured out of the box, but the recommendation is ~/.zsh_history too, see /etc/zsh/newuser.zshrc.recommended
tekumara
on 1 Jun 2020
Now that I recall, this did trip me when I first installed prezto. Probably, because I was migrating from OMZ.
srijanshetty
on 1 Jun 2020
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Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately, I don't think we will end up doing this... it doesn't make sense to support an alternative default location for the HISTFILE because we're two different frameworks. If you want to use a different HISTFILE, you can set that variable manually. We honor that variable when it is manually set.
I'd also rather optimize for usage rather than setup... and I don't want to introduce either a dynamic HISTFILE variable that changes depending on which files exist... or change the default to something other than what our users have had for many years.