Comment by cachvico
18 hours ago
I find myself using ctrl-r less and less as I make sure that anything of value that I work out goes into a Makefile or the app tooling, for me this is the basis of the dev-ops approach to work (make sure everything is scripted, not worked out on the fly).
Ctrl + R is great, you don't have to type out --dangerously-skip-permissions
Ctrl+r is great, sometimes. History saving sucks which can make using it difficult, but i usually use it out of laziness than trying to recall a command, especially with ssh or repeated iterations requiring flipping between two settings/states. Its hard to rely on it for other things, but its still super useful.
I use history | grep quite a lot, because of the non-fuzziness with default ctrl+r. If I know exactly what the substring is, then that's great, but sometimes I also want to see the sequence around the command too (e.g. two step processes like eval ssh agent + ssh add key)
I do that too. I am trying to use Mise. (Getting interested in Maak. Haven't done anything with it yet. My Scheme is pretty rusty)
Still, Zsh history with fzf fuzzy searching is fantastic. I have years of history I can recall commands with a few keystrokes.
Truly a second-brain.
Yes, but how do I know what should go in the justfile? When I've realized I've used Ctrl-r for the same thing a few times :-)
And as another commenter said, you often forget the target, and use Ctrl-r to find it. Although just does support fzf...
I’m lazy so With fish, I just type a part of the command and press up few times to get to where I want. There’s also fish-fzf.
I've relied on this so much that I copy my entire history between machines...
Self hosted Atuin would do this for you too. Unless you don't want the added tooling/complexity
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ctrl+r still great for targeting your make targets :)