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Does anyone have a good solution for handling bash history?
What (I think) I want:
- History search for each shell searches the history of that shell first, then all other shells’ history.
- I don’t want to lose history from windows opened in tmux or when I’m running a bunch of shells in parallel.
What I don’t care about:
- Syncing history
- Fuzzy search
What I don’t want:
- Mandatory full-screen history search
Note: I will eventually try fish or zsh, but my schedule and to-do list don’t currently permit me to rework all my dotfiles to work with a new shell.
@pganssle have you tried using `fzf` https://github.com/junegunn/fzf which has bash bindings to override the default ctrl-r, although not sure if it achieves the "history merging"
@pganssle I've been trying out https://github.com/asmeurer/dotfiles/blob/d2de8eb27b38be76c8469d32682d793b8e195a87/.profile#L76 for separate histories per shell. Should work well if you maintain the same terminal tab configuration.
I’ve tried
atuinso far, and I don’t like it. I think I can only use it with the full screen history search and somehow despite the fact that it’s automatically merging commands from all shells, it still loses commands, sometimes from the shell I’m currently using.