Utilizing GDBHISTFILE

[ask1234560]

Type of feature request

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Misc

Use GDBHISTFILE environment variable

Summary Description

Hi, first of all thank you for this amazing project.

I am new to gdb and gef, when doing setup i wanted to organize the files required for gdb.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

in gef.py

gef is not using GDBHISTFILE, i am not sure where to do change.

Implementation idea/suggestion

check if GDBHISTFILE variable is set and read if it is set.

Existing alternatives?

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Additional information

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[hugsy]

GEF doesn't change what's set in your ~/.gdbinit file (except for actually sourcing gef).
It's up to your to do that.

[ask1234560]

Hi @hugsy, gdb looks for GDBHISTFILE and if not found then it will create ~/.gdb_history.

But in gef -

the path is hard coded and it is not looking for GDBHISTFILE.

[Grazfather]

So something like f"set history filename {os.getenv('GDBHISTFILE', '~/.gdb_history')}" should do the trick.

[ask1234560]

Yes, this will do.

[Grazfather]

Why don't you go ahead with the PR, since you can test it? :)

[ask1234560]

Created the pull request, #912