Share history in multiple zsh shell

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Published on 2012-12-15T00:34:31Z Indexed on 2012/12/17 23:05 UTC
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I am trying to setup zsh so that it shares command history between different zsh sessions:

in multiple tabs
in multiple gnome-terminals
in different screen sessions

I have put this in .zshrc

#To save every command before it is executed (this is different from bash's history -a solution):
setopt inc_append_history

#To retrieve the history file everytime history is called upon.
setopt share_history

but that does not work.

e.g. I type 1 command: gedit afile and then I go to and zsh and type history. I don't see gedit afile.

output of 'setopt' is

 % setopt
nohistbeep
histexpiredupsfirst
histfindnodups
histignorealldups
histignoredups
histignorespace
histnostore
histreduceblanks
histsavenodups
histverify
incappendhistory
interactive
monitor
promptsubst
sharehistory
shinstdin
zle

How can I achieve this?

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