[ale] Keep things from history

[Tim Watts]

On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 12:08 -0400, The Don Lachlan wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:30:56AM -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > Interesting thing I found in bash a while back and noticed it again
> > today.
> > If you put a space before the command it will not be stored in bash's
> > history.
> 
> Correction: Bash can be *told* to do that.
> 
> If you look at your HISTFILE env variable, you'll find "[ ]*" as one of the
> colon-separated elements. That's why it ignores commands that start with a
> space and why it won't necessarily work everywhere - it has to be set up.
> 
> This is mine:
> 
>   HISTIGNORE="&:ls:cd:[bf]g:[ ]*"
> 
> -L

Seems that on my ubuntu 10.04 system it discards "[ ]*" from history
without being told -- i.e. no HISTIGNORE env var is set. So presumably
this is the compiled default. Given that, I guess I'd have to use an
explicit HISTIGNORE to tell it NOT to discard.


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