How to increase history in oh-the-zsh

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I just installed oh-my-zsh for the first time. I just want to know how can I modify the number of past commands that are remembered in history? Where can I set this setting?

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You can set the size of the history file zsh uses with the SAVEHIST variable. just put a line in your .zshrc (found in your home directory) like SAVEHIST=n to save up to n commands in your history (replacing n with a number of course).

By default, I think that both zsh and oh-my-zsh aleady has a line in your .zshrc that assignes SAVEHIST, so just change the number to one of your liking.

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There is a plugin that claims to do exactly what you are looking for, appropriately named per directory history plugin:

https://github.com/jimhester/oh-my-zsh/commit/baa187e4b903f39422a84b580e6e617ec3738e09

"Per-directory-history - tracks previous command history both per current directory and globally, with the ability to switch between them on the fly, bound to ctrl-g." says their wiki.

I did not test it myself (yet), but according to the comments it should work.

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Digging into ZSHBUILTINS(1)'s man page I found that:

fc -W .zsh_history_from_ram

writes to a file the history in the exact same format it is saved by zsh in ~/.zsh_history. This will work as long as you have a shell session that still has the history in memory.

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