[qutebrowser] History

[Florian Bruhin]

Hey,

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 08:08:51AM +0000, Enrico Maria De Angelis wrote:
> - Why the history folder is not listed in the *Path* section of
> qute://version/? I don't remember where I am supposed to look for that
> path. When I forget where it is, I just run a find to find it.

Because there is no dedicated "history folder". There is a config, data and
cache folder (which are all listed in :version) and the history is in the data
folder.

> - What would be wrong in having the history in a plain text format? I
> mean, having it that form would allow one to manually edit it, which could
> be useful in some circumstances.

Short answer: Mostly performance, because SQL allows to bridge the data to Qt's
GUI widgets easily. Also, it's not like it's a completely foreign format, you
can edit it by launching sqlite on it.

Longer answer: See the discussions here:
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/1765
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/pull/2295

Florian

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