• @Parabola
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      201 year ago

      Lots of people don’t know. Just like ctrl+r to substring search your command history in bash.

      • @[email protected]
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        I seriously pity people who don’t know ctrl+r that is one of the most important tools for productivity on the cli.

        • @[email protected]
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          And you can hook in fzf to it to get a proper list of previous commands all fuzzy matched!! Oh-my-zsh just requires adding fzf to your plugins list (:

          I survived for years with just https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions which is similarly great, but fills a slightly different role. Just start typing and you’ll see a faded preview of the most recent command matching & u ctrl+f to autocomplete it. Is gr8

          e: clarified what zsh-autosuggest does

        • @[email protected]
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          I’ve found it’s a bit overrated honestly. Usually, I also need the commands before and after something, so I use history | grep -B N cmd instead

        • @Parabola
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          11 year ago

          LOL. I had the same reaction when I found out a decade ago.

      • Dandroid
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        I just got moved to a new team, and my new team lead up arrow spams. I was about to tell him about ctrl-r, but he found his command, and I’m awkward, so I didn’t say anything. Maybe next time.

        • @voodooattack
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          31 year ago

          You can search your bash history with ctrl+r.

          Pro tip: install atuin for the best experience.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      No specific reason, but I’d rather be deep in the cold, cold ground before I quit with “:x” instead of “:wq”.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        But… But :x is superior because it doesn’t overwrite unchanged files with a new modified date :(

    • @eran_morad
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      71 year ago

      Whoa. I’ve been doing :wq for like 25 years and never new about :x.