Better History Search

Posted on in terminal, tools

No, I’m not talking about Atuin. 1

I improved my search experience with just one tool - fzf

As you might know, fzf is a general purpose fuzzy finder. 2

But adding just source <(fzf --zsh) at the end of ~/.zshrc (and/or running it in your existing session) improves your Ctrl+r experience.

See the demo yourself.

  1. I must confess that I’m tempted multiple times. But I think their USP is history sync, which is not my use case right now. For now, I’m happy with my current solution. ↩︎

  2. It can be used for fuzzy finding git objects. Out of the box, you get directory completion (Alt+C) and filename completion (Ctrl+T) - although it clashes with Alacritty for me (worked with Konsole) ↩︎