[ralgozino]

Install "fzf" [0] and set it up to be used with control+r, there's no going back. You get as a bonus the chance to use fzf in a lot of other places :)

I guess that more advance tool would be "atuin" [1], but it is too much for my use case.

[0] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf [1] https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin

[hiAndrewQuinn]

Seconding `fzf`, it's such an improvement from the stock Ctrl-R behavior I think it's worth installing even if you never actually run `fzf` at the command line itself. Hence why I led with the new shortcuts at https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf (fuzzy `cd` with Alt-C being the other one of note).

Interestingly, the default fish shell also comes with something similar these days, although I still prefer the look of `fzf`.

[worldsayshi]

fzf is also really good when you want to make interactive bash scripts (or recipes in Justfiles or Makefiles).

[noman-land]

I switched to atuin and it's a huge step up from native Ctrl + R and fzf because you can press Ctrl + R again and again and it switches between searching through directory, session, host, or global history.

[bencornia]

I listened to an interview with the creator of atuin on the changelog podcast. It seems like a compelling idea. The only thing that makes me consider switching from the fzf/ctr-r combo is syncing my history between tmux sessions. But I don't spend enough time in the terminal to really justify the time to set it up.

[nelsonfigueroa]

Never heard of atuin but it looks awesome. I'm going to try it out.

[worldsayshi]

Oh, looked at the feature set. Sounds interesting.

"Sync your shell history to all of your machines, wherever they are"

That sounds like a potential security issue though.

[BytesAndGears]

It also just uses a SQLite db, so you can sync it manually yourself if you want. But their implementation seems pretty secure.

Regardless, I just run it local only on each of my machines, separately. It’s still really helpful!

[noman-land]

Just a note that this is an optional add-on that I don't use.

[Sharparam]

FWIW the sync server can be self-hosted.

[petters]

This has been a larger productivity boost for me than LLMs. I suppose I should use LLMs more.

[nelsonfigueroa]

+1 for `fzf`. And if you're using Oh My Zsh then check out fzf-zsh-plugin: https://github.com/unixorn/fzf-zsh-plugin

[dtj1123]

Came here to say this. Fzf is almost too good, it's so convenient to find past commands that I've gotten two years into a career as a software developer without committing any of my most common command line tools to memory.