Atuin Magic Shell History is pretty good.
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Nah just save all your commands in a text file on the desktop then make an alias to open it in nano so you just have to type "com". Works for dumb ol me
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.. And waste an opportunity to type on my ludicrously expensive mechanical keyboard?
FRIG no
I mean that's what it's there for
god I fucking love Linux (not a Linux thing) but I still fucking love Linux
Your readline config sucks because the default sucks.
Add this to your .inputrc:
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward
Ctrl + p is the way.
I see so many people loving on atuin in the comments but I just tried it and don't get it. It seems so much worse than the built in search. I guess it's not for me.
I've been using it for a few months, and so far it's not as good as just regular old command history. I think any benefit might be for really, really old commands, or commands happening in a specific location. So, I'm going to keep using it to see if it helps then. But, so far it's a massive downgrade.
I thought command line users like typing things. I avoid typing where possible, and dont use the command line on Linux.
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You know the one command I hate? CTL vs CTRL. There is no damned consistency I can see. Is it systemctl reboot or systemctrl reboot?
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And then the command is just "su"