[Haskell-cafe] Local .ghci_history

[João Cristóvão]

If you're confortable enough with compiling ghc on your own, the patch
(over 7.8.2) I submitted seems to work just fine.
Cheers

2014-05-27 19:48 GMT+01:00 Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me>:
> I really need this.
>
> On Tue 27 May 2014 17:40:15 BST, João Cristóvão wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I raised this on trac ( https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9089
>> ), but it seems it did not get much attention, but surelly I'm not the
>> only one who finds this useful.
>>
>> With this little change, if there is a .ghci_history in the folder
>> where you launch ghci it will use it instead of the global
>> ~/.ghc/ghci_history. So, if you keep jumping from one project folder
>> to the other, you can have a project specific history on each one (if
>> you want).
>>
>> If you do not create a local .ghci_history file on that folder, the
>> behaviour is exactly the same as it was before. Thus, this is somewhat
>> identical to the local .ghci file.
>>
>> This, coupled with finally discovering the well hidden possibility of
>> increasing the history size:
>>
>> http://trac.haskell.org/haskeline/wiki/UserPrefs
>>
>> Has vastly improved my ghci workflow.
>>
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> João
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