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by noman-land 492 days ago
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.
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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.
Never heard of atuin but it looks awesome. I'm going to try it out.
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.

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!

Just a note that this is an optional add-on that I don't use.
FWIW the sync server can be self-hosted.