Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?
by dtgriscom on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @08:53PM
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I often have three or more terminals open, doing different tasks in each; I also often have cycles of work where I'll repeat the last three commands again (three up-arrows and a return). This breaks if one terminal's commands get inserted into another terminal's history.
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My solution is I immediately record the commands, but do not load them. That way new terminals get all the history, but old terminals keep their flow.
Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?
by geysersam on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:26AM
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But if you go back later, the chains of commands from different terminals are interlaced right?
To some degree; it depends on the amount of multitasking. I mainly care about which commands in which order when I'm looking at recent commands from that terminal; otherwise I use C-r.
Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?
by flyaway123 on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:05AM
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Comment from the author:
"Ted, the change I suggest doesn't affect the independence of your sessions as you suggest. Each shell maintains a unique history in memory so modifying the history file has no affect on running terminals. The only time the history file is read is when you start a new terminal. I recommend you try my suggestion. Really, all I am doing is eliminating the race condition that causes the bash history file to have inconsistent data.
Thanks for the feedback."