Home Page Forums MAME MAME Can someone set the console history to 100?

Hi all,

Could someone pretty please set the ln.historysetmaxlen(10) to something like 100? Or if you're feeling generous, 200?

grep -rn history mame206_extract/mame/plugins/*
mame206_extract/mame/plugins/console/init.lua:31: ln.historysetmaxlen(10)


After 10 lines, I've lost my console history....(sung to the tune of You've lost that lovin' feelin)


from 3rdparty/linenoise/linenoise.c

What stops you from doing a pr?

I guess I'll have to figure it out. I'm a bit of a git idiot.

I'm not opposed to this necessarily but is it necessary to change it by default when you can just edit the script or run "require("linenoise").historysetmaxlen(100)" directly from the console.

Edit: If you need the LINENOISE_DEFAULT_HISTORY_MAX_LEN set to 200 though, that shouldn't be an issue.

Hi Crazyc,

It's true I can edit the script, but it'd be really nice to just have a bigger default. We're in the 64 bit gigabyte age, what's a few hundred bytes here and there.

I tend to really mess up the mame source doing my learning experiments, so I download a "fresh zip" on every release and it just one of those things that'd just be nice to have set up by default.

At some point I get annoyed enough by the 10 line maximum length to change it.

I remember that I used to have to edit the Makefile under Ubuntu to compile, but now I just download it and make -j4 and I don't even have to modify the makefile anymore which is awesome.


I'm such an idiot/newbie that I still haven't figured out how to just build a single driver.

I suppose I'm going to have to end the suffering...

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthread...ded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

It's that simple.

You're right! That is easy! Oh man I've been doing it the hard way...


make -j4 SUBTARGET=justapple SOURCES=src/mame/drivers/apple2e.cpp REGENIE=1


./justapple64 apple2e

So I increased the default length to 50 and the max to 200. I also added a history() function that will display the history if called with no parameter or history(n) which will put the nth history entry on the command line.

Many thanks, Crazyc!