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@@ -41,13 +41,15 @@ set appropriate variables, and the number of history lines retained by
default is quite small (30 lines). See the description of the shell
variables (referred to in the documentation as parameters) tt(HISTFILE),
tt(HISTSIZE) and tt(SAVEHIST) in ifzman(zmanref(zshparam))\
-ifnzman(noderef(Parameters Used By The Shell)).
+ifnzman(noderef(Parameters Used By The Shell)). Note that it's
+currently only possible to read and write files saving history
+when the shell is interactive, i.e. it does not work from scripts.
The shell now supports the UTF-8 character set (and also others if
supported by the operating system). This is (mostly) handled transparently
by the shell, but the degree of support in terminal emulators is variable.
There is some discussion of this in the shell FAQ,
-http://zsh.dotsrc.org/FAQ/ . Note in particular that for combining
+uref(http://www.zsh.org/FAQ/). Note in particular that for combining
characters to be handled the option tt(COMBINING_CHARS) needs to be set.
Because the shell is now more sensitive to the definition of the
character set, note that if you are upgrading from an older version of