Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:24:38 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: termios cursor motion support
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Mark E. wrote:

> > Some programs, such as GDB, which
> > don't have a built-in dribble feature, make it hard to save sessions
> > for future references, for this reason.
> 
> So GDB uses the readline library but it doesn't use the related history 
> library?

Sorry, I don't understand: are you saying that `history' has a
built-in dribble feature?  I cannot find any references to that in the
docs.

AFAIK, `history' can save the commands you type, but it cannot save
the output from the application which uses `history'.  Dribbling needs
to record both, and it needs to record them in the exact same sequence
as they happened during the session, to provide a reliable script of
the whole session.