per-directory-history VS atuin

Compare per-directory-history vs atuin and see what are their differences.

per-directory-history

Per directory history for zsh, as well as global history, and the ability to toggle between them with ^G. (by jimhester)
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per-directory-history atuin
2 54
237 17,775
- 8.6%
2.0 9.7
9 months ago 3 days ago
Shell Rust
zlib License MIT License
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per-directory-history

Posts with mentions or reviews of per-directory-history. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-20.

atuin

Posts with mentions or reviews of atuin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-25.
  • Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2024
    I've heard good things about atuin

    https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin

  • ohmyzsh VS atuin - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 22 Feb 2024
    The shell history autocomplete seems to be better than the one that comes with Oh My Zsh.
  • Atuin – Magical Shell History
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2024
    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!

  • Fly through your shell history
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024
  • Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024
  • fish-shell: the user-friendly command-line shell
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2023
    They recently added sqlite backed history. You can also use atuin[1] for more advanced usecases.

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

  • Atuin: Sync and search shell history
    1 project | /r/opensource | 20 Aug 2023
  • Ask HN: Share a shell script you like
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2023
  • Returning `Result<()>`
    1 project | /r/learnrust | 11 Jun 2023
    I was studying the Atuin crate, and I noticed the following pattern:
  • Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2023
    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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing per-directory-history and atuin you can also consider the following projects:

zsh-histdb - A slightly better history for zsh

mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!

hstdb - Better history management for zsh. Based on ideas from https://github.com/larkery/zsh-histdb.

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

jog - Simple script to print the last 10 commands you ran in the current directory

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

pystory - Keep a local history of everything you do inside your virtual python environment

zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

hstr-rs - hstr, but with paging, Unicode, and fuzzy matching