atuin VS antigen

I've heard good things about atuin

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin

The shell history autocomplete seems to be better than the one that comes with Oh My Zsh.

Atuin is lovely, although I found some of its defaults pretty annoying until I changed them:

- It turns out I basically never want fuzzy search through my command history, and certainly not by default. I gave it a try for a couple weeks but it was very frustrating to be searching for a particular command, type in the exact prefix, and have the thing I was looking for hidden among hundreds of irrelevant entries. Solution: search_mode = "fulltext" in Atuin's config.toml

- Having a full screen pop-up appear whenever I hit up was really jarring, especially since I have a habit of hitting up a few times when I'm at the command line thinking of what I need to do next, to sort of refresh my memory on what I was just doing; the popup very effectively destroyed that chain of thought. Solution: eval "$(atuin init bash --disable-up-arrow)" in .bashrc

These are pretty minor issues and it's possible my preferences are just different from most!

Atuin now works really nicely for me. My only outstanding issues are:

- Under mosh the UI ends up corrupting the screen; apparently this is really more of a mosh bug (no alternate screen support) and you can work around it by having tmux/screen running: https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/issues/1324

- I still don't have a great model in my head of how sync works and find myself occasionally force-syncing across a few systems until I convince myself everything is in the same state.

- It would be nice to have some kind of settings sync so I don't have to make the config changes mentioned above on 10 different systems. Surprisingly I don't see a feature request for this yet so maybe I'll go open one...

Anyway I don't want these issues to stop people from trying Atuin – it's a really nice piece of software. I almost never make changes to the default environment so I consider it a testament to how useful it is that I've added it to all the systems I use regularly!

They recently added sqlite backed history. You can also use atuin[1] for more advanced usecases.

[1]: https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin

I was studying the Atuin crate, and I noticed the following pattern:

You might be interested in https://github.com/ellie/atuin

> Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands.

If you liked legacy antigen or antibody, and want something lightning fast, I recommend antidote (obviously, I'm biased here)

If you're into this sort of thing, antigen is a package manager for zsh plugins. I really like fzf-tab (I personally only activate fzf on a double-tab, I found it got in the way a bit as the default).

roles: - role: gantsign.antigen antigen_version: '2.0.2' antigen_redis_sha256sum: 'f47ec933b32c578abe8cb39b24e0ddd114ef5cc01b3c05bcb634859ead31493f' antigen_download_dir: "{{ x_ansible_download_dir | default(ansible_env.HOME + '/.ansible/tmp/downloads') }}" antigen_redis_mirror: 'https://github.com/zsh-users/antigen/releases/download/v{{ antigen_version }}' antigen_install_oh_my_zsh: yes users: - username: username antigen_libraries: - name: oh-my-zsh antigen_theme: name: agnoster antigen_bundles: # Bundles from the default repo (robbyrussell's oh-my-zsh). - name: git - name: docker - name: docker-compose - name: command-not-found # Syntax highlighting bundle. - name: zsh-syntax-highlighting url: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting - name: zsh-autosuggestions url: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

At some point, perhaps ~10 years ago, I was introduced to ZSH with the venerable Oh My ZSH framework. For me, this was a huge awakening because it taught me about how much shell improvements can impact your life. I gradually evolved my ZSH setup to use package managers like antigen and began to invest more in creature comforts.

I like the symplicity.

Have you thought about bundling it up so it can be installed with antigen or oh-my-zsh[0]

[0] https://github.com/zsh-users/antigen/wiki/Development#notes-...

You might want to look at antigen

After that, we install the dependencies for ZSH and then download Antigen (used for managing ZSH plugins) from GitHub.