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Why does extended_history timestamp commands that are not under its 'control'?

Hi all,

when you setopt extended_history, ZSH will put the timestamp of when it
exits in front of all commands that have not been timestamped, yet.
I can see why this could be considered useful, but personally, I dislike
this behaviour. If exact information when a command was issued is not
available, I would rather not store this information at all. Is there a
way to make ZSH not touch those entries?

Thanks,
Richard

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Peter Stephenson | 28 Jul 13:36

Re: Why does extended_history timestamp commands that are not under its 'control'?

"Richard Hartmann" wrote:
> when you setopt extended_history, ZSH will put the timestamp of when it
> exits in front of all commands that have not been timestamped, yet.
> I can see why this could be considered useful, but personally, I dislike
> this behaviour. If exact information when a command was issued is not
> available, I would rather not store this information at all. Is there a
> way to make ZSH not touch those entries?

"Not storing" and "not touching" the information are different things:
if it's not touched when written, it's simply stored as gibberish.  It
sounds like what you're asking for is an extra flag or a slightly
different variant of the format.

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Richard Hartmann | 28 Jul 17:28

Re: Why does extended_history timestamp commands that are not under its 'control'?

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 13:36, Peter Stephenson <pws <at> csr.com> wrote:

> "Not storing" and "not touching" the information are different things:

True. Sorry.

> if it's not touched when written, it's simply stored as gibberish.  It
> sounds like what you're asking for is an extra flag or a slightly
> different variant of the format.

Well, not quite a new format. Just a way to make ZSH not pretend
to have information it can not possibly possess.
As I said, I can see situations where this might be a good thing,
but for me, it is a bad one :)

Richard