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I'm an atuin user and if this feature exists, I have not seen it and would love to have it. Could you expand on how to get per-directory history as something separate from global shell history?
I kind of wish there was a shell that had the option for histories localized to a directory. So I can go into a directory and then look at what I was doing when I was last in that directory. Some complicated compilation command line to compile and link a source file and a bunch of libraries that was run when I was last in that directory, for example. There'd still be the 'history' command for everything and then mayb…
I kind of wish there was a project-oriented complete desktop environment, where you could enter a project and everything was context-sensitive to it. editor, files, directories, shell, browser, whatever. sort of a way to work on projects, then put them on old. and maybe meta-projects to choose, track, arrange, manage some or all projects. maybe by area of responsibility.
Nix is that taken to the logical conclusion.
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Scenario: Something forces a reboot. I've got 4 bash shells open. I've been doing some compilation & linking of libraries with a crazy long gcc command. After I reboot, that's not in my history because only the first-opened bash shell's history seems to get saved and I've gotta recreate the commandline again. Is there any shell that would let me see all the history from all of the different shells I might have had op…
That's how bash works for me, I believe by the combination of these in my .profile: shopt -s histappend PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a"
I kind of wish there was a shell that had the option for histories localized to a directory. So I can go into a directory and then look at what I was doing when I was last in that directory. Some complicated compilation command line to compile and link a source file and a bunch of libraries that was run when I was last in that directory, for example. There'd still be the 'history' command for everything and then mayb…