James Frye fryeja@us.ibm.com wrote:
I've just installed Fedora 8 on a new machine (Lenovo T61p), and am
having
problems getting tcsh to run correctly. The main problem is that when I exit,
the .history
file is destroyed. It's not that the current session history is not saved. I copied
a .history
file from my older machine loaded it, and the history mechanism works as expected for that
session.
On restart, though, I find that the .history file has been truncated to 0 bytes.
Thank God, I'm not the only one on this planet with that problem. I'm using the version of "tcsh" that comes with Fedora 8 (manually installed with "yum" because someone decided that "tcsh" shouldn't be part of the default installation any longer).
I installed the "yum" version, and still have the same problems. My userid doesn't save history (though your trick works around it), root doesn't even execute its .login or .cshrc - but does seem to execute commands that are in .bashrc :-(
After some research with Google, I lost all hope because nobody seems to use tcsh, fvwm2 and xterm nowadays. I'm a dying dinosaur.
There is a fairly active fvwm forum, and ongoing development: fvwm.lair.be
I can't really relate to the "dinosaur" comment. I think it's a different attitude. To me the computer is a tool with which I do certain things, not an end in itself, so I don't need/want decoration.
James