From cc600fe686e905a696cbc840decdd8d24b7bb72f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:17:32 -0500
Subject: more cleaning

---
 history.go                | 10 +++-------
 theMagicOfAutocomplete.go | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/history.go b/history.go
index c048c1c..f26ba8e 100644
--- a/history.go
+++ b/history.go
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ import (
 	durationpb "google.golang.org/protobuf/types/known/durationpb"
 )
 
-func (newpb *Auto) getHistoryPB() error {
+func (newpb *Auto) getHistoryPB() (*Autos, error) {
 	all := NewAutos()
 	err := config.LoadCache(all, "argv", newpb.Argname) // loads ~/.cache/argv/forge.pb
 	if err != nil {
 		// newpb.History = false
-		return err
+		return all, err
 	}
 
 	if all.Len() == 0 {
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ func (newpb *Auto) getHistoryPB() error {
 		err = all.Save()
 	}
 
-	if newpb.Debug {
-		all.PrintHistory()
-	}
-
 	var last *Auto
 	// find the last entry. this is dumb way to do it
 	for found := range all.IterAll() {
@@ -53,5 +49,5 @@ func (newpb *Auto) getHistoryPB() error {
 	err = all.Save()
 
 	newpb.Debugf("WRITE DEBUG: write PB='%s' len(pb)=%d config.Save().err=%v", all.Filename, all.Len(), err)
-	return err
+	return all, err
 }
diff --git a/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go b/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go
index d28dd8b..3202af3 100644
--- a/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go
+++ b/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go
@@ -31,7 +31,14 @@ func Autocomplete(dest any) *Auto {
 		pb.PrintDebug()
 	}
 
-	pb.getHistoryPB() // read in the history protobuf file
+	all, err := pb.getHistoryPB() // read in the history protobuf file
+	if err != nil {
+		// there is no history
+	}
+
+	if pb.Debug {
+		all.PrintHistory()
+	}
 
 	// turn on debugging if duration < 200 milliseconds
 	dur := pb.Duration.AsDuration()
@@ -50,7 +57,6 @@ func Autocomplete(dest any) *Auto {
 	}
 	// pb.Debug = true
 	// pb.Debugf("DEBUG: MustParse(%v)", flags)
-	var err error
 	myAuto.pp, err = arg.ParseFlags(flags, dest)
 	if err != nil {
 		pb.Debugf("DEBUG: Parse error: %v", err)
-- 
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