From 66a52ac588c6fc240b91f4ee457723a33375046d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:23:55 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Also ignore failure to read readline history in the ask
 kitten

---
 kittens/ask/main.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kittens/ask/main.py b/kittens/ask/main.py
index db039b200..b9bc3a94e 100644
--- a/kittens/ask/main.py
+++ b/kittens/ask/main.py
@@ -50,8 +50,10 @@ class HistoryCompleter:
 
     def __enter__(self):
         if self.history_path:
-            if os.path.exists(self.history_path):
+            try:
                 readline.read_history_file(self.history_path)
+            except Exception:
+                pass
             readline.set_completer(self.complete)
         return self