“As far as I can make out, this is a gross hack based on a gross hack.”

A humorous/interesting comment in the Zsh source code. When posted as a link, HN strips the line numbers, hence the text post: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/00d20ed15e18f5af682f0daec140d6b8383c479a/Src/hist.c#L3303-L3328 https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/00d20ed15e18f5af682f0d...