[radicality]

I’ve started using Atuin based on a recommendation from here a few weeks ago. I generally like it, but feel like the fuzzy matching is bad - maybe I either misconfigured something or nobody else cares about it?

If the command I want to match against is within the last few days or so, the fuzzy match performs ok, but anything from months ago which I know for a fact is in the history, it just doesn’t match it and instead shows irrelevant items (which technically I’m sure according to some algorithm are correct). Another one is I often have to put a ^ to ensure the ‘curl’ I’m searching for starts looking for matches at beginning of line.

Often times I still fall back to using fzf on ~/.zsh_history which seems to get what I want. There is this thread which is same issues I’m seeing, and I did try smart_sort=True but it’s still not great.

https://forum.atuin.sh/t/understanding-atuin-history-search/...

[hashworks]

Try to add ' in front of words to find exact matches if the fuzzy search isn't providing the results you're looking for.