Is there any way to stop RStudio from loading all of my terminal history when I start up a new RStudio window? It sometimes takes a couple of seconds and apparently I really am that impatient.
I took a look at the preferences but I haven't been able to solve the issue there:
The RStudio site has a nice help page for the terminal pane and has this to say about persistence:
Terminal Persistence
RStudio mitigates the terminal's lifetime being tied to that of the R session by saving and restoring several aspects of the terminal session:
- The list of open terminal sessions, and their Terminal Names.
- Terminal Buffers (with limits as described)
- Environment Variables (Mac / Linux / Server only, and does not include shell variables)
- Current Working Directory (Mac / Linux / Server only)
The persisted terminal data is stored within a folder named
console06(ends with zero-six), beneath the project folder's.Rproj.user.
This seems to imply that I could kill the buffer persistence by simply deleting (or just modifying) the console06 file, perhaps with a bash exit hook (does such a thing even exist?)?
This seems like a bit of a faff to me and I was wondering if there was an easier way to keep the other nice bits of persistence, while just loading the terminal with a clean buffer on start?