[ESS] length of history

[A.J. Rossini]

(cc'ing ess-help for posterity)

On 2/10/06, Sebastian Luque <spluque at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sending this again through email, gmane is taking too long to post.
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:47:07 +0000,
> Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> >>> I've been searching for a way to increase the size of the command history
> >>> ring, but cannot find the relevant variable in the ESS (5.2.11-1 Debian)
> >>> or Emacs (GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll
> >>> bars) of 2005-10-02 on trouble, modified by Debian) manuals.  Can somebody
> >>> please point out where this should be set?
>
> > As Tony suggested, its in comint I think - try comint-input-ring-size
>
> Thanks both for the suggestion, which I completely overlooked in the
> manual.  That took care of it.  However, the manual perhaps needs a
> correction in:
>
> ,-----[ (info "(ess)Command History") lines: 1673 - 1675 ]
> | An input history of the last few commands is maintained (by
> | default the last 50 commands are stored, although this can be changed by
> | setting the variable `comint-input-ring-size' in `inferior-ess-mode-hook'.)
> `-----
>
> The default value is actually 32 in my system, but that might depend on
> Emacs version?

Yes.

best,
-tony

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