[pd0wm]

You are probably referring to fish shell which has this feature (https://fishshell.com/).

However, I find that zsh + ohmyzsh works just as well. After typing the beginning of a command you can use the arrow keys to cycle through all commands in the history with the same beginning.

A third method for efficient history search is ctrl+r. Just press ctr+r and start typing part of the command. Then you press enter to execute or ctr+r to cycle through the history.

[gtm1260]

fish is nice but I've ran into too many issues where some weird shell command / script I find online is expecting to be in bash and I have to switch out of fish, so its hard for me to switch.

[dagmx]

As long as they don't need to be sourced, you can just add a shebang for bash at the top of the scripts and run them via bash.

[Macha]

If they do need to be sourced, you can use bass: https://github.com/edc/bass

[breatheoften]

Wow this is neat — I’m gonna try this out. Does it really work?

[Macha]

It works at least for nvm (caveat: Installed from nvm directly, not homebrew), and my company's ssh setup script, which are the two reasons I've had cause to use it.

[h1d]

Just run it with bash then. The syntax is too different to run bash script on fish.

[ufo]

You can usually drop to a bash subshell for those

[ComputerGuru]

Fish 3 will fix a lot of that. Try the nightly builds.

[canhascodez]

oh-my-zsh is effectively unmaintained. That is not the worst thing in the world, but one may wish to consider prezto as an alternative:

https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto

[iends]

I see like 6 commits to oh-my-zsh in the past week. Why do you say its not maintained?

[canhascodez]

688 open pull requests, the existence of a half-dozen competing projects, and Robby's blog post suggesting that he doesn't take the project seriously.

[h1d]

Or zplug which allows you to load oh-my-zsh scripts as well.

[hellofunk]

ctr+r is a great tip!

[patrec]

It's worth getting used to your new discovery a bit first (C-r is isearch-backward), partly because it's useful in other places, too – for example ipython or any decent programming language shell has emacs-derived keybindings including isearch via readline or a clone.

But after that, I'd suggest giving fzf (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) a try.

[h1d]

Using integrated fzf is so much better than cycling through one by one.

[jasonm23]

Zsh also has history completion of words.

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