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

[Jakob Buchgraber]

FuziOK wrote:
> 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.
Yes. I was just reading too fast. I noticed this myself after already 
having sent the e-mail.
I am sorry.

Cheers,
Jay
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