- the number of commands in the history list is now configureable via the

   config system
 - added a new config option to allow persistant history lists. This is
   currently only used by ash, but the calls ({load,save}_history) could
   be added to the other shells as well.

1 files changed, 55 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/shell/cmdedit.c b/shell/cmdedit.c
index b6e743eb4..73378e659 100644
--- a/shell/cmdedit.c
+++ b/shell/cmdedit.c
@@ -90,7 +90,12 @@
 
 
 /* Maximum length of the linked list for the command line history */
-#define MAX_HISTORY 15
+#ifndef CONFIG_FEATURE_COMMAND_HISTORY
+#define MAX_HISTORY   15
+#else
+#define MAX_HISTORY   CONFIG_FEATURE_COMMAND_HISTORY
+#endif
+
 #if MAX_HISTORY < 1
 #warning cmdedit: You set MAX_HISTORY < 1. The history algorithm switched off.
 #else
@@ -1125,6 +1130,55 @@ static int get_next_history(void)
                 return 0;
         }
 }
+
+
+extern void load_history ( char *fromfile )
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_COMMAND_SAVEHISTORY
+        FILE *fp;
+
+        // cleanup old
+        while ( n_history ) {
+                if ( history [n_history - 1] )
+                        free ( history [n_history - 1] );
+                n_history--;
+        }
+
+        if (( fp = fopen ( fromfile, "r" ))) {
+                char buffer [256];
+                int i, l;
+        
+                for ( i = 0; i < MAX_HISTORY; i++ ) {
+                        if ( !fgets ( buffer, sizeof( buffer ) - 1, fp ))
+                                break;
+                        l = xstrlen     ( buffer );
+                        if ( l && buffer [l - 1] == '\n' )
+                                buffer [l - 1] = 0;
+                        history [n_history++] = xstrdup ( buffer );
+                }
+                fclose ( fp );
+        }
+        cur_history = n_history;
+#endif
+}
+
+extern void save_history ( char *tofile )
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_COMMAND_SAVEHISTORY
+        FILE *fp = fopen ( tofile, "w" );
+        
+        if ( fp ) {
+                int i;
+                
+                for ( i = 0; i < n_history; i++ ) {
+                        fputs ( history [i], fp );
+                        fputc ( '\n', fp );
+                }
+                fclose ( fp );
+        }
+#endif
+}
+
 #endif
 
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