+HistoryLen=0 still saves 1 history item

[sweetsour]

Hello,

Was happy to see that you could disable history now.

However, it seems like HistoryLen=0 still saves one item instead of none in wincmd.ini in [RightHistory] [LeftHistory], with the index 0.

Not sure about OldCmdLineCount and MaxItemsInComboBox.

[Horst.Epp]

Hello,

Was happy to see that you could disable history now.

However, it seems like HistoryLen=0 still saves one item instead of none in wincmd.ini in [RightHistory] [LeftHistory], with the index 0.

Not sure about OldCmdLineCount and MaxItemsInComboBox.

Whats the reason for disabling the history ?
Security is not impacted in any way by having the history.

[sweetsour]

Privacy. In a scenario where other people can access your user too, but you don't want them to know which directories you browsed. Similar to private browsing mode in browsers.

[white]

Privacy. In a scenario where other people can access your user too, but you don't want them to know which directories you browsed. Similar to private browsing mode in browsers.

Total Commander does not support private operation. There are many more histories, for example search history and create folder history, etc.

So if you want private operation you will have to accomplish this yourself. The easiest way is to make your configuration files read only. You can also make parts of wincmd.ini readonly by redirecting sections to separate files and make these read only.

Directory history also shows current folder. So when HistoryLen=1 history is already disabled. The current folder is also stored in [left] and [right] sections.

Saving of history can be disabled in Options/Operation/Save on exit (SaveHistory=0).

[ghisler(Author)]

HistoryLen wasn't meant to turn off the history, there is SaveHistory for this as white has pointed out. But I will still try to add it, for consistency reasons.

[white]

Tested OK using TC8.51b3 32bit.

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks!