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Show HN: HSTR – easily view, navigate, search and manage your shell history

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Post by dvorka » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 4:32 PM UTC

Show HN: HSTR – easily view, navigate, search and manage your shell history
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Post by kbd » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 7:40 PM UTC

This seems to work very similarly to how fzf hooks into ctrl+r to let you browse/search your history. fzf is a much more general tool.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 7:41 PM UTC

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Post by umvi » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 8:15 PM UTC

Awesome. Is there any way I can make it so ctrl+r invokes hstr (similar to how installing vim replaces vi)? It seems to be an stty setting but it isn't obvious, even after searching, if this is possible. If it is, would make a nice addition to the readme.

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Post by bewuethr » Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 3:36 AM UTC

umvi wrote: post #4

Awesome. Is there any way I can make it so ctrl+r invokes hstr (similar to how installing vim replaces vi)? It seems to be an stty setting but it isn't obvious, even after searching, if this is possible. If it is, would make a nice addition to the readme.

I think the answer is "yes"; it seems to be covered in the configuration page: http://dvorka.github.io/hstr/CONFIGURATION.html#binding-hh-t...

It says to use

    bind '"\C-r": "\C-ahh -- \C-j"'

to bind to Ctrl-R; the "bind" command can be used in the shell directly. Alternatively, you can put

    "\C-r": "\C-ahh -- \C-j"

in your ~/.inputrc.

Re: Show HN: HSTR – easily view, navigate, search and manage your shell history

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Post by dvorka » Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC

bewuethr wrote: post #5

umvi wrote: post #4

Awesome. Is there any way I can make it so ctrl+r invokes hstr (similar to how installing vim replaces vi)? It seems to be an stty setting but it isn't obvious, even after searching, if this is possible. If it is, would make a nice addition to the readme.

I think the answer is "yes"; it seems to be covered in the configuration page: http://dvorka.github.io/hstr/CONFIGURATION.html#binding-hh-t... It says to use bind '"\C-r": "\C-ahh -- \C-j"' to bind to Ctrl-R; the "bind" command can be used in the shell directly. Alternatively, you can put "\C-r": "\C-ahh -- \C-j" in your ~/.inputrc.

@bewuethr exactly! BTW there is even easier way how to configure HSTR:

    hstr --show-configuration >> ~/.inputrc && . ~/.inputrc

You can run just hstr --show-configuration to check what will be appended

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Post by umvi » Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 6:53 PM UTC

dvorka wrote: post #6

bewuethr wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the answer is "yes"; it seems to be covered in the configuration page: http://dvorka.github.io/hstr/CONFIGURATION.html#binding-hh-t... It says to use bind '"\C-r": "\C-ahh -- \C-j"' to bind to Ctrl-R; the "bind" command can be used in the shell directly. Alternatively, you can put "\C-r": "\C-ahh -- \C-j" in your ~/.inputrc.

@bewuethr exactly! BTW there is even easier way how to configure HSTR: hstr --show-configuration >> ~/.inputrc && . ~/.inputrc You can run just hstr --show-configuration to check what will be appended

Ah, I had actually inadvertently done that using the one liner, but just hadn't restarted my terminal! Great tool, I love it!