Am 21.08.2006 um 17:07 schrieb gamename:

The documentation writes:

(defun comint-read-input-ring (&optional silent)
"Set the buffer's `comint-input-ring' from a history file.
The name of the file is given by the variable `comint-input-ring-
file-name'.
The history ring is of size `comint-input-ring-size', regardless of
file size.
If `comint-input-ring-file-name' is nil this function does nothing.

(defun comint-write-input-ring ()
"Writes the buffer's `comint-input-ring' to a history file.
The name of the file is given by the variable `comint-input-ring-
file-name'.
The original contents of the file are lost if `comint-input-ring' is
not empty.
If `comint-input-ring-file-name' is nil this function does nothing.

Although I have set comint-input-ring-file-name, this file never gets
written. And neither read (I've put some uniq commands into it to see
if). All *shell* does in my case, is it reads ~/.tcsh history –
because I have tcsh as login shell.

Could be there is bug, or I simply need to activate the described
behaviour with some start-up or shut-down hooks ...

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