Re: Fwd: Default time for unmarked history lines

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Fwd: Default time for unmarked history lines
Date	2016-01-18 17:21 -0500
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 1/18/16 11:53 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:

> So, how about instead interpreting a missing/0 date as a NaD (Not A Date),
> rather as readline does anyway with time 0, and providing a slightly more
> meaningful message than the current "??". Then a) I would be able to remove
> all my bogus "1" timestamps, and b) both "0" and missing timestamps would
> give the user a clue that data was missing and/or zero?

I think that a more meaningful error string would be useful.  We'll try
reporting on invalid dates if the timestamp string in the history entry is
non-empty.

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		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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Re: Fwd: Default time for unmarked history lines Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2016-01-18 17:21 -0500

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