From d78f505d0574f862d6ba634036a6f77d90e206b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:45:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] repl: save to a default file in the home tmp directory

---
 lib/internal/repl.js | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/internal/repl.js b/lib/internal/repl.js
index f56068345e412a..34707278088258 100644
--- a/lib/internal/repl.js
+++ b/lib/internal/repl.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 const Interface = require('readline').Interface;
 const REPL = require('repl');
 const path = require('path');
+const fs = require('fs');
 const os = require('os');
 
 module.exports = Object.create(REPL);
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ function createRepl(env, cb) {
   }
 
   const repl = REPL.start(opts);
-  if (opts.terminal && env.NODE_REPL_HISTORY_FILE) {
+  if (opts.terminal) {
     return setupHistory(repl, env.NODE_REPL_HISTORY_FILE, cb);
   }
   repl._historyPrev = _replHistoryMessage;
@@ -60,7 +61,17 @@ function createRepl(env, cb) {
 }
 
 function setupHistory(repl, historyPath, ready) {
-  const fs = require('fs');
+  // default to using <homedir>/tmp/node_history_file
+  if (typeof historyPath !== 'string') {
+    const tmpdir = path.join(os.homedir(), 'tmp')
+    try {
+      fs.mkdirSync(tmpdir);
+    } catch (err) {
+      if (err.code !== 'EEXIST') throw err;
+    }
+    historyPath = path.join(tmpdir, 'node_repl_history');
+  }
+
   var timer = null;
   var writing = false;
   var pending = false;