From 769166386ce2cd28faa0966fefd8c5c0e4497222 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Ising <fabian@murgi.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:24:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [ZSH] Set history size before anything interruptible

An aborted startup kept /etc/zshrc's SAVEHIST=1000 and truncated
~/.zsh_history on exit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 zsh/.zshrc | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/zsh/.zshrc b/zsh/.zshrc
index 1a88625..41d8b12 100644
--- a/zsh/.zshrc
+++ b/zsh/.zshrc
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# First, so an interrupted startup (Ctrl-C) doesn't keep /etc/zshrc's
+# SAVEHIST=1000 and truncate the history file on exit
+HISTSIZE=100000
+SAVEHIST=100000
+setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY
+
 source "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh/lib/startup.zsh"
 [[ -d ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.cache/zsh ]] || mkdir -p ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.cache/zsh