EC_EDITLINE_SET_HISTORY(3)

🎀 EC_EDITLINE_SET_HISTORY — bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a page from the Libecoli Programmer's Manual, and it's about ec_editline_set_history 💖 the girl whose whole job is literally just... changing your history size. iconic behavior tbh.

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✨ NAME ✨

ec_editline_set_history — Change the history size. 📜✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bestie, here's the whole vibe, character for character, no edits, no notes:

#include <ecoli/editline.h>

int ec_editline_set_history(
    struct ec_editline   *editline,   /* The pointer to the ec_editline structure. */
    size_t                hist_size,  /* The desired size of the history. */
    /*
     * Optional file path to load and write the history to.
     */
    const char           *hist_file
);

so you pass in your editline pointer, the size you want, and optionally a file path to load and write the history to 🫶 the comments are right there in the code, they're part of the vibe, do not touch them 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so the default? the default behavior is that you get a history whose size is literally EC_EDITLINE_HISTORY_SIZE. that's the starting point, the factory setting, the out-of-the-box moment ✨

and this function? this function is how you change that 💫 that's it, that's the whole plot. you call it, you say "actually bestie, I want this size", and the history size becomes what you asked for. slay.

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✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

• 0 on success — we ate, no crumbs 🎀
• -1 on error, and errno is set — so go read errno, it's telling you what went wrong, fr fr 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, all of them, in order, exactly as listed:

• ec_editline_get_el(3)
• ec_editline_set_prompt(3)
• ec_editline_complete(3)
• ec_editline_set_prompt_esc(3)
• ec_editline_parse(3)
• ec_editline_free(3)
• ec_editline_term_size(3)
• ec_editline_gets(3)
• ec_editline_interact(3)
• ec_editline_set_node(3)
• ec_editline(3)
• ec_editline_get_node(3)
• ec_editline_curline(3)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry.

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ngl that's the whole page. no cap, no extra lore, just history size management and respect for the authors 💅

and that's the tea, bestie 🦋 — this was libecoli, dated 2026-06-11, from the Libecoli Programmer's Manual. mwah, bye 👑✨