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		LaputanMachine on Jan 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Keeping a long shell history This feature can also be be enabled in macOS by adding the following line to ~/.zshrc: `setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE`

JadeNB on Jan 23, 2024 [–]

> This feature can also be be enabled in macOS by adding the following line to ~/.zshrc:

> setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE

Except that I think it's called `histignorespace` (I haven't caught up with when and how much zsh cares about lowercased names), I think this is just about zsh, not about macOS specifically.

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