For me, what's even better than Ctrl-R is the Fish shell. In Fish, you type something that you want to search for in your history and then press up, and it goes back through your history and only shows commands that match what you typed. Your shell configuration looks pretty bare-bones from the screenshot, so you might also appreciate the syntax highlighting and very high-quality autocomplete.
The website is at fishshell.com. If you have Homebrew, you can install it with brew install fish.
The thing I don't like about zsh is you need a whole pile of custom code such as ohmyzsh and its plugins, which really slow it down. All the cool things about fish are built in, and written in C++.
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it. If you're interested in breaking this out into your own post with an intro + tips on fish, and why you use it, I think that would be useful for folks.
This emulates the functionality of Oh My Zsh, where if you type a letter or word, then press up or down, it will search through the .bash_history file.
The only thing I miss from Oh My Zsh is a "visual selector" for files, by tabbing through a virtual list, and ignoring cases when tabbing to a folder.
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For me, what's even better than Ctrl-R is the Fish shell. In Fish, you type something that you want to search for in your history and then press up, and it goes back through your history and only shows commands that match what you typed. Your shell configuration looks pretty bare-bones from the screenshot, so you might also appreciate the syntax highlighting and very high-quality autocomplete.
The website is at fishshell.com. If you have Homebrew, you can install it with
brew install fish.yup. I've been using Fish since I started programming and I fail to see why it's not omnipresent. One you go fish you never go back.
Tried almost every shell out there and I can say Fish is just the best
It's same for zsh with
ohmyzsh, just write the start andupup:)The thing I don't like about zsh is you need a whole pile of custom code such as ohmyzsh and its plugins, which really slow it down. All the cool things about fish are built in, and written in C++.
I've never used fish, so I think I will give it a try!
And who says zsh's plugins slows its functionality down? It even works better and faster with its plugins + OhMyZsh.
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it. If you're interested in breaking this out into your own post with an intro + tips on fish, and why you use it, I think that would be useful for folks.
I'm also a heavy fish user. Perhaps we should write something for fish and zsh?
Do it!
This is also in Bash, but requires a little bit of config. Put this into your
~/.inputrcfile:This emulates the functionality of Oh My Zsh, where if you type a letter or word, then press up or down, it will search through the
.bash_historyfile.The only thing I miss from Oh My Zsh is a "visual selector" for files, by tabbing through a virtual list, and ignoring cases when tabbing to a folder.