As previously mentioned, atuin has been something of a
godsend. Interacting with the bash command history is a complete
joy. There’s a minor configuration tweak, illustrated below, that I
want to mention in case it helps someone else out. I prioritized
session and directory history ahead of global for lookup. Tab
sprawl is the name of the game for me, each one like an individual
context. So session makes the right place to start even if it’s
initially empty. global is just a few C-r hits away if needed.
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## The list of enabled filter modes, in order of priority.
## The "workspace" mode is skipped when not in a workspace or workspaces = false.
## Default filter mode can be overridden with the filter_mode setting.
# filters = [ "global", "host", "session", "workspace", "directory" ]
filters = [ "session", "directory", "global", "host", "workspace" ]
The above TOML goes in ~/.config/atuin/config.toml
Meanwhile, I spent some quality time working on direnv
configuration. Direnv is less of an immediate win because there’s some
effort needed to add it to existing projects and use it for initiating
new ones. Also, it works more as implicit magic than explicit
navigation. Trey Hunner provided a good starting point but I’m
molding his approach for my workflow. I’m working on a bash function
to properly setup .direnv for my pre-existing uv based Python projects. pyenv is going the way of the dodo. Viva la Frank
Wiles.
zoxide however, is going to take some getting used to. The directory teleportation mental model needs some burn in.