What is the maximum history size?

[itpropaul]

In addition to sharing the default, please also state the maximum history size.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/customize-settings/profile-advanced#history-size

[mattwojo]

@zadjii-msft -- Do you know the answer here?

[zadjii-msft]

Sorry, I CANNOT find the email rule that's filtering out mails from the docs repo 😫 hopefully I just added another to snipe them from whatever rule I already had set.

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As far as the max goes - the max size of the entire buffer is SHRT_MAX. That includes the scrollback AND the current viewport size. It's a bit of a complicated answer, that depends on how big the Terminal currently is.

If you set historySize to any value where (historySize + viewport height) would be greater than SHRT_MAX, we'll just clamp the buffer length to SHRT_MAX. I suppose that's a sensible enough max value to list?

[nguyen-dows]

Hi @itpropaul, I just added the maximum history size to the docs! Our maximum history size is 32767 (which is similar to the value of SHRT_MAX)
With that, I'll be closing this issue :)