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by shurcooL 4538 days ago
> Nobody types an entire URL like https://example.com/example-page?input=sample&another-input=.... We bookmark it and give it a keyword like ex or something. From then, we just type ex and hit return to access the website.

I don't wanna sound negative, but just being realistic.

I don't rely on bookmarks primarily. I rely on "most frequently visited gets auto-completed first" and fuzzy search of Chrome Omnibox. If I do bookmark something, it's to indicate to the algorithm "I care about this, make it easier to fuzzy find it later".

But it's a good step in the right direction, good job!

Edit: From the description, it sounds like autojump does something close.

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You should try out fish[1], one of the features that makes it great is that it does exactly what the chrome omnibox does, just with commands. It shows what it will complete after you press ^F and it is a lot of times correct.

It also has lots of other features, like tab completion that tells you what the options of commands do. So reading the manpages or typing -h is generally not needed.

If you do try it, also try one of the themes of oh-my-fish[2], most of them have a git thing that lets you know if you have uncommitted stuff and on what branch you are.

[1] http://fishshell.com/

[2] https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish