[tolidano]

fzf is arguably more useful and replaces this and ctrl+r too

[stinos]

So much this. While tricks like the OP's do make history search just bearable, fzf just makes it how it should have been from the start :)

[oblio]

How did you plug it into history? Or do you just go $(history | fzf)? :)

[brujoand]

fzf asks you if you want to enable this during installation.

[oblio]

On MacOS I installed it using Brew and I don't remember seeing any prompts :(

Edit: nevermind:

> # To install useful key bindings and fuzzy completion:

> $(brew --prefix)/opt/fzf/install