Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?

Re:Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you ... by terminal-survey on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @10:12AM (#16015134)

> i've got ~20 bashes open in various tmux configurations. the amount of times i lost command history is infuriating (e.g. due to reboot or whatever).

zsh does (has an option to) commit commands to the history file immediately when you execute the command. Makes me hate bash even more when I have to use it occasionally on a server.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you ... by chainsaw10 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:34PM (#16017307)

You can do something similar with bash. If you set PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a', it'll append to the history file right after the command completes (because the prompt command is run as the prompt is printed).

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Re:Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you ... by baq on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:20PM (#16024619)

thanks, i'm sure you've just saved a couple hours for a future me :)

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Re:Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you ... by foobarian on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:31AM (#16015721)

I use an eternal history setup for bash, with bash session tags that let me sort history by tag for correct backward-search behavior.

(edit) Not to imply this functionality belongs to a terminal, far from it. But it's nice to have access to 2 years of shell commands :-)

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