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by SmellTheGlove 2004 days ago
This is pretty cool. I'm always mashing the up arrow, so I installed this in anticipation of making my life easier :)

I didn't have `cargo` or any other rust language support installed. However, that seems pretty straight forward: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

You may want to throw that into the README.

Anyhow, I'm running this on WSL2/Ubuntu 20.04 using zsh + ohmyzsh. It installs cleanly, and I just added `alias hh=hstr-rs` to ~/.zshrc as the only additional step. Works nicely!
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wh33zle 2004 days ago
If you want to keep your zshrc "clean" you can add any number of individual scripts to `~/.oh-my-zsh/custom` and they will be executed for every new shell.
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SmellTheGlove 2002 days ago
Oh that's good to know. For someone my age, I have embarrassingly little knowledge of shell customization. I just looked in .zshrc and there was a comment to the effect of "Add your aliases below, e.g. ALIAS blah=foo" and so I listened to it!
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wh33zle 2002 days ago
There is nothing inherently wrong with putting them into .zshrc!

The reasons I keep them separate is because:

a) I can simply backup the `custom` directory and restore onto a "vanilla" oh-my-zsh installation b) I can use descriptive file names which would otherwise have to be comments

Also, some software likes to append stuff (like adding directories to PATH) to .zshrc upon installation so it gets kind of messy over time.

I guess the comment is from the plain zsh installation and oh-my-zsh just didn't remove it.

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