[PATCH] HISTCONTROL_ignoredups (was: [PATCH] history_show_duplicates)

[Tomas Styblo]

* Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org> [Mon, 09 Dec 2002]:
> > > Here is the new patch. It allows the user to set the
> > > HISTCONTROL environment variable to a value of "ignoredups"
> > > if he wants to have only unique entries in history widgets.
> > 
> > Maybe duplicates should be always ignored?
> 
> Maybe.  The only widget where the duplicates make sense is the
> command line (the history is shown by Alt-h on the panels).

[...]

> If anybody will seriously miss full history with duplicates in
> any widget, please explain the reason.

So what's the final decision ? Should I prepare a new version of
the patch in which the duplicates will always be ignored ?

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