Re: history-size reported as "0" even is value is "-1"

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/16/23 7:28 AM, Sebastian Carlos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> history-size is documented as follows:
> > If set to a value less than zero, the number of history entries is not
> limited.
>
> But after setting it to "-1", for example with this line in .inputrc:
> > set history-size -1
>
> It is still reported as "0" in "bind -v":
> > set history-size 0

Thanks for the report. The right thing happens either way, but readline
should report the value as < 0 so the output of `bind -v' can be reused
as input.

Chet

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