A configuration to maintain history across sessions and share it across terminals in ZShell

.zshrc

##############################################################################
# History Configuration
##############################################################################
HISTSIZE=5000               #How many lines of history to keep in memory
HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history     #Where to save history to disk
SAVEHIST=5000               #Number of history entries to save to disk
#HISTDUP=erase               #Erase duplicates in the history file
setopt    appendhistory     #Append history to the history file (no overwriting)
setopt    sharehistory      #Share history across terminals
setopt    incappendhistory  #Immediately append to the history file, not just when a term is killed

There is also:
https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/lib/history.zsh

You can load with a zsh plugin manager such as zplug

Thanks so much for this! I just divorced myself from the overhead of oh-my-zsh and was so confused by the history behavior I had come to think of as standard. Cheers to you, friend.

Here is the zplug entry:
zplug "plugins/history", from:oh-my-zsh

I just divorced myself from the overhead of oh-my-zsh

And I did exactly the same with zprezto, yay vanilla

I switched from bash to zsh

This totally made my day, thank you!

for zinit users:

zinit snippet OMZP::history

Hey. I use someone else's .zshrc config and there were two lines in it. The first one was #setopt SHARE_HISTORY and the second one was setopt sharehistory, like in your snippet. Do you know what the difference would be between the two?