Re: [gentoo-user] Short history in terminal (without X)

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Jakob Buchgraber wrote:
> Roman Naumann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> does someone know, how to increase the "history-buffer's size" of the
>> terminal? (and I mean the pure terminal, without an X-Server)
>> I mean, if I use some commands producing plenty of output, I cannot
>> scroll to
>> the beginning of the text quite often, because the history buffer is to
>> small.
>>
>> Another inconvenient thing is that the buffer seems to "forget"
>> everything
>> except the last screen of text, if I switch to another terminal. (alt
>> + F2
>> for instance).
>>
>> How can I make the history buffer larger, or - if possible - set it
>>  infinitely large. (Just as the "Konsole" of KDE.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Roman Naumann.
>>
> To make it "infinitely" large you can set the variable HISTSIZE to
> some huge value like
> export HISTSIZE=1000000000000
>
> You could try setting the history to infinitely in Konsole and then do
> echo $HISTSIZE
>
> Cheers,
> Jay


HISTSIZE is used in shell as the number of commands to save in a history 
list,
but cannot increase the "history-buffer's size" of the terminal.
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