fz VS zsh-history-substring-search

fz : - Seamlessly adds fuzzy search to z's tab completion and lets you easily jump around among directories in your history.

zsh-history-substring-search: This is a clean-room implementation of the Fish shell's history search feature, where you can type in any part of any command from history and then press chosen keys, such as the UP and DOWN arrows, to cycle through matches.

In most shells, you can make use of Ctrl+R to perform backwards search through your history. After pressing Ctrl+R, you can type a substring you want to match for commands in your history. As you keep pressing it, you will cycle through the matches in your history. This can also be enabled with the UP/DOWN arrows in zsh.

That doesn't have the same behavior as fish. This plugin does: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

zsh-history-substring-search allows you to do the same thing in zsh

In that case, history substring search can come in handy.

if you're going to use a fork of zdharma's work, this one might be better https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search (maintained by a group)

history-substring-search 🥇 ⌛ - Needs to be loaded after zsh-syntax-highlighting, or they'll both break. You'll also need to bind keys to its functions, details are in the README.md.

On a similar note, zsh-history-substring-search has become something I look for everywhere.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

2. History substring search is a separate module: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search, which I assume oh-my-zsh configures