Show HN: HSTR – easily view, navigate, search and manage your shell history (opens in new tab)

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33 pointsdvorka7y ago5 comments

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kbd7y ago

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

umvi7y ago

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.

bewuethr7y ago

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.

dvorkaOP7y ago

@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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