set -o vi
ESC k /command
or just grep history...
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Why are you making personal attacks against me.
Everyone sharing their Ctrl+R tips, here's my Control+R question:
How does scope work? Some command history only seems to exist in certain tabs.
Also sometimes I Ctrl+R in a tab then the command is there but I forget I need a different one first, so I ctrl+c but the next time I search for that original command somehow it doesn't exist anymore.
I'm using the default terminal on Nobara (fedora based).
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It's too early to call me out like that.
Guilty!
I type the first few letters and use up arrow, or !start of command name
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Set -o vi
Atuin Magic Shell History is pretty good.
Me, playing indie games on Apple and doing the same with xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ~filepath
- yes
This is why I use fish, it's weird and not posix compliant, but its autocomplete and history stuff saves so much time it's worth it
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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