[landhar]

One thing I’d like these to do (I tried a couple and settled for zsh-histdb with the fzf integration) is to be able to annotate past commands, with a description, tags or, even better, both.

The use case I have in mind is when I end up crafting some complicated and inscrutable incantation and being able to “earmark” it for future reference with a little bit of context that FutureMe might have forgotten by the time he thinks to reach out for the history.

Put another way, I do tend to use my shell history as a scrapbook of sorts, and I wish I was able to easily write on the margins.

Please, let me know if this is already a feature of any of these tools that I’ve completely missed.

[reddit_clone]

I use Zsh + FZF and am very happy with it. My history is about 30K entries long and it handles like a champ.

I use a poor mans version of the tagging you speak of. I use hashtags at the end of long commands I would like to reuse.

$ <long winded shell command> #restart #remote

FZF history search finds them easily.

[joshka]

perhaps `setopt interactivecomments` and then use comments might work?