zsh-history-substring-search

I love fzf but no need to invent the wheel here if you are using zsh. check out one of these zle plugins. (Demo https://asciinema.org/a/155704) I prefer these two, you get good performance, search that is semi-shell syntax aware, ranking that takes age somewhat into account, and syntax hilighting. https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo... with https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin... or the same thing but older, for those who like older things because they have an air of stability about them: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

How does this differ from https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search ? Except that yours seems to be built-in and zsh-history-substring-search is ~800 lines of zsh

Agreed, but also https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search for me. I can't life without this one anymore

On a similar note, zsh-history-substring-search has become something I look for everywhere. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

yeah agreed. If you have trouble understanding how it could be better just install fish and try it for 5 minutes and you'll see what we mean. There are attempts to emulate some of it in zsh, but it's still not as good as what fish comes with out of the box. [1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions [2] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

And history search https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search oh-my-zsh is an unnecessary "config framework" that includes all the things already.

Also add https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search to make history search really nice (type normally in shell, then press up arrow, like in fish)

I tried fish and found it had some interesting new features but not worth switching from zsh, good news is others thought the same so I just had to spend 2 minutes and add 3 lines to my zsh configuration to get those fish features. tada ! https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

Tab completion has its limits. Using zsh and some added awesomeness from fish: sys<alt+f> and it completes to systemctl sys<ctrl+e> and it completes to the full last systemctl command I used https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

It seems you are using bash and need to up your shell game, allow to suggest zsh which allow for thing such as: !!:s/status/stop/ This will recall the last command and substitute status with stop. !-2:s/status/edit/ Will recall two commands back from history and substitute status with edit. See http://reasoniamhere.com/2014/01/11/outrageously-useful-tips... For added awesomeness have a look into history-substring-search[1], zsh-autosuggestions[2], zsh-syntax-highlighting[3]. [1]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search [2]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions [3]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

there are several zsh autocomplete type plugins. I like this one https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

^R is probably my second favorite command, I prefer FiSH style (and use https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search with ZSH), but since this isn't on every server I have access, it's a nice trick to remember. My favorite one (I digress) is that you can use ^[something]^[something else] to replace [something] with [something else] in the last command. Great for typos, or for repeated commands with few different arguments. ~ ping google.com ~ ^google^news.ycombinator ~ ping news.ycombinator.com

I'm using https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search It emulates the Fish behavior (which is just awesome). I'm not sure if it requires oh-my-zsh, but I think it doesn't.

You should check out https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search