Hmm might be great for some. I’m a Unix philosophy guy, one tool for one job. So far atuin was fine to be a better search history. Now it might be time to look for simpler alternative. Any suggestions? (I’m on zsh)

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justech 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I tried atuin and then switched back to fzf[0]. It's less features but that's not necessarily a negative.

[0]https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

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kstrauser an hour ago | parent [-]

Fzf doesn't let you sync your shell history, though. I self-host an Atuin server so that I can share that history across my various machines.

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justech 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, that's part of the "less features" I mentioned. I don't get any value from syncing shell history, but I can see why it's useful for some.

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stevekemp an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To be honest I find the things I do on my "work" laptop are different to the things I do on my "personal" laptop, and different again to what I do on my desktop machine.

Regardless of which machine I'm using at any given moment I appreciate having "endless history", and the ability to search/filter it. But despite that I don't think I need to actual sync that.

I'm sure there is value to be had from syncing and making all history unified, but it's never appealed to me particularly.

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doubled112 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I also self host my own atuin server. It’s great.

I didn’t think syncing terminal history would be very useful until I tried it, but now I have a hard time when I don’t have it.

	▲	kstrauser an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That was my experience. “Huh, what was that complicate thing I did on the database server?” I have its search bound to ^r and use Fish shell’s own search for most things, with cross-machine search a keystroke away.

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anamexis 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have to ask -- why? Atuin has not gotten any worse at its core history search functionality. All of the new features are entirely opt-in. Why switch?

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hakcermani 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

not zsh .. plugging my bash script [1] (and gnome task bar UI) - to start a gnome terminal with a different named history file. [1]: https://github.com/appsmatics/gtsh-hist

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dcre 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What here takes them over the complexity threshold?

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grosswait 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

AI appears to be opt in