So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?

Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by psYchotic on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:33PM (#35250454)

I also had a rather noticeable delay when launching atuin. As it turns out, this was because it checked for an update every time it launched! You can disable that update check: add a ` update_check = false` to your `~/.config/atuin/config.toml` [1]. That made the delay pretty much disappear for me.

[1]: https://atuin.sh/docs/config/#update_check

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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by MayeulC on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:49PM (#35250701)

What? I don't expect any tool to interact with the network if it's not made specifically for this (curl, netcat, etc). This would betray my expectations, I find it unacceptable.

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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by conradludgate on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:58PM (#35250854)

It's one of our key features

> backup and sync encrypted shell history

But it's up to you. You can disable any sync features by installing with `--no-default-features --features client` set. Your application won't have any networking features built into the binary then

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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by conradludgate on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @03:00PM (#35250872)

We actually fixed the delay issue, but since you disabled update checking you wouldn't have known to update!

It was quite annoying so we're sorry for that

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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by pmarreck on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @04:07PM (#35251795)

How would you compare this to, say, McFly? https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by conradludgate on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @04:27PM (#35252034)

Not too different.

* We use heuristic based searches whereas mcfly trains a neural network * We offer a sync functionality to share history on multiple machines

mcfly is a great project, although they are looking for new maintainers apparently!

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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by reddit_clone on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @06:11PM (#35253360)

Intrigued by local-directory-first feature of McFly (It brings up commands you previously executed in that folder first). I tried it for a bit. But there was noticeable lag compared to FZF and also the UI was a bit shaky.

Went back to FZF (in Zsh).

I have a seven year zsh history. That may be a contributing factor for the issues ?

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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by psYchotic on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @05:26PM (#35252802)

Oh, it's nice you fixed it, thanks! And don't worry, I updated atuin, as it's in my distro's repository (which is why I wasn't worried about disabling the update check).

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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by jyxent on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:00PM (#35263937)

I noticed that before and am glad to see it fixed. My current issue is that typing to search is noticeably slow on a 150,000 entry history, especially for the first few characters. fzf is instant for me.

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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by ellieh on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @03:26PM (#35251265)

Yeah we accidentally had this blocking :/ It does only check once an hour though, and can totally be disabled!

We introduced this as we found a lot of people reporting bugs that had already been fixed + they just needed to update, or users on the sync server that were >1yr behind on updates (making improvements really difficult to introduce).

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