New release 1.3.8

Ruben Laban r.laban+lists at ism.nl
Wed Aug 15 13:11:23 CEST 2012


On 8/15/2012 12:04 PM, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 03:27:08PM +0200, Ruben Laban wrote:
>> On 8/7/2012 2:01 PM, Ruben Laban wrote:
>>> On 8/7/2012 11:51 AM, Ondrej Filip wrote:
>>>>     o History deduplication in BIRD client.
>>>
>>> Nice! This feature alone pretty much is reason enough to upgrade all my
>>> instances :-)
>>
>> Minor update: currently it only does eliminate repeating commands from
>> the history. I personally wouldn't mind even more aggressive
>> deduplication. Currently A A B B C C B B A becomes A B C B A; reducing
>> it to C B A could have it benefits as well.
>> When troubleshooting I tend to do a fair amount of alternating "sh os
>> ne" and "sh os st" for instance. Getting back to commands prior to (for
>> example) 10 alternations between those 2 is still the same with this new
>> feature. Perhaps a build and/or commandline option could be added for
>> this?
>
> We could probably make that command-line option (how many last lines would
> be checked for deduplication).

Sounds like a nice solution. Possibly combined with say ~/.birdc to 
store such "settings", or environment variables?

Regards,
Ruben




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