history

n 1: the aggregate of past events: "a critical time in the

school's history"

2: a record or narrative description of past events: "a history

of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to

kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn:

{account}, {chronicle}, {story}]

3: the discipline that records and interprets past events

involving human beings: "he teaches Medieval history";

"history takes the long view"

4: the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from

the past to the present and even into the future: "all of

human history"

5: all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing;

a body of knowledge: "the dawn of recorded history"; "from

the beginning of history"

history

1. A record of previous user inputs (e.g. to

a {command interpreter}) which can be re-entered without

re-typing them. The major improvement of the {C shell} (csh)

over the {Bourne shell} (sh) was the addition of a command

history. This was still inferior to the history mechanism on

{VMS} which allowed you to recall previous commands as the

current input line. You could then edit the command using

cursor motion, insert and delete. These sort of history

editing facilities are available under {tcsh} and {GNU Emacs}.

2. {The history of computing

(http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/index.html)}.

3. See {Usenet} newsgroups {news:soc.history} and

{news:alt.history} for discussion of the history of the world.

(1995-04-05)