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Atuin – Magical Shell History

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Re: Atuin – Magical Shell History

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Post by thibaultamartin »

nidnogg wrote: post #6

I've been using Atuin for at least a year and a half, and I think it's definitely the tool I'd been looking for the most in my entire dev career. It has made me much more confident with my hazy memory. Before it I'd struggle consistently to remember most of my recent commands. bck-i was always a bit obtuse to me and I honestly never grokked it until I had Atuin wired into my workflow (hard) and ran into bck-i instead…

I second this wholeheartedly. Atuin is a joy to use and makes it so easier to find past commands. Thanks a lot atuin, and thanks to the colleague who recommended it!

Re: Atuin – Magical Shell History

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Post by lblume »

ellieh wrote: post #19
nidnogg wrote: post #6

I've been using Atuin for at least a year and a half, and I think it's definitely the tool I'd been looking for the most in my entire dev career. It has made me much more confident with my hazy memory. Before it I'd struggle consistently to remember most of my recent commands. bck-i was always a bit obtuse to me and I honestly never grokked it until I had Atuin wired into my workflow (hard) and ran into bck-i instead…

(dev here!) thank you so much! I love to hear things like this <3

Thanks a lot for your work!

Re: Atuin – Magical Shell History

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Post by yesbut »

I'd never sync my shell history with a third party. The self-hosting option looks interesting, but anyone comfortable with syncing their shell history with a third party is severely lacking basic privacy literacy and underestimates the sensitivity of command history.

Re: Atuin – Magical Shell History

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Post by ellieh »

yesbut wrote: post #25

I'd never sync my shell history with a third party. The self-hosting option looks interesting, but anyone comfortable with syncing their shell history with a third party is severely lacking basic privacy literacy and underestimates the sensitivity of command history.

All user data is e2e encrypted, but yes self-hosting might make you feel better about where your data lives

We wrote some more about it here: https://blog.atuin.sh/new-encryption/

Re: Atuin – Magical Shell History

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Post by picardo »

Is there a way to change the key binding of the search screen? I'm too attached to using the up key to recover the last command I used, and it's a little jarring to now have to click tab from the Atuin search interface. It adds a little friction each time I have to do this.

As an aside, most of my usage of history is to use the last few commands I used, and so seeing the entire history each time seems like an overkill.

Re: Atuin – Magical Shell History

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Post by NoNotTheDuo »

picardo wrote: post #27

Is there a way to change the key binding of the search screen? I'm too attached to using the up key to recover the last command I used, and it's a little jarring to now have to click tab from the Atuin search interface. It adds a little friction each time I have to do this. As an aside, most of my usage of history is to use the last few commands I used, and so seeing the entire history each time seems like an overkil…

There’s a whole doc page about it: https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/key-binding/#disable-up-...

Re: Atuin – Magical Shell History

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Post by picardo »

NoNotTheDuo wrote: post #29
picardo wrote: post #27

Is there a way to change the key binding of the search screen? I'm too attached to using the up key to recover the last command I used, and it's a little jarring to now have to click tab from the Atuin search interface. It adds a little friction each time I have to do this. As an aside, most of my usage of history is to use the last few commands I used, and so seeing the entire history each time seems like an overkil…

There’s a whole doc page about it: https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/key-binding/#disable-up-...

Thanks. I bound it to double up key in zsh.

> bindkey '^[[A^[[A' atuin-up-search

Works much better now!

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