[Info-vax] reasons I like long uptime

[already5chosen at yahoo.com]

On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 9:21:23 PM UTC+3, Paul Sture wrote:
> On 2017-06-29, already5chosen at yahoo.com <already5chosen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 5:13:39 PM UTC+3, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> >
> >> Generic history support on Unix and macOS does pretty well when 
> >> recovering, even without tmux or such. 
> >
> > Not really, when you have multiple simultaneous terminals. Esp. when
> > some of them have the same working directory. And, as I said,
> > terminals are only part of the problem. I run multiple sessions of GUI
> > apps as well. And semi-gui semi-command-line Gnu Octave. Although it's
> > rarer and indeed command line sessions are the biggest pain.
> >
> 
> macOS Terminal solves that problem by maintaining a profile per window,
> held in ~/.bash_sessions, which contain separate history files independent
> of the current working directory.
> 

Cool. I want such feature too.
Does it also save/restore all environment settings per window? I'd guess it does, it sounds no harder that histories.

> 
> > I never ever used "Linux subsystem on Windows 10". Partly because I
> > don't use Windows 10 for professional purposes. Which is mostly
> > because of the reason that started this sub=thread - on 10 it's
> > impossible to have an uptime of several months.
> 
> Oh dear :-(
> 
> -- 
> Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough to
> have a totally separate environment to run production in.