REQUEST: change in replay history

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Nov-1998, Dirk Laurie <address@hidden> wrote:

| I have just been trying to find the previous command
| after a long debugging session in which every command
| was 'return'.  After sixty or so 'return' replays,
| I gave up.  I couldn't suppress the treacherous thought
| that Matlab 3.5, which I still use on my slow machine
| at home, does not add a command to the replay history
| if it is identical to the previous one.
| 
| Would it require more than a simple string comparison
| to make Octave behave like that too?

I agree that this would be useful, but I don't think it should be the
default.  I'll see about adding a feature similar to the HISTIGNORE
feature from bash, but probably only for the 2.1.x development sources.

For now though, do the history and run_history commands, or the
reverse searching feature in readline (C-r) help?

jwe