Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

Re:Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite ... by wpietri on Saturday May 06, 2023 @12:17PM (#35842749)

Maybe I have some sort of disease, but while reading "find words out of order or support features like stemming" the regexs for that immediately flashed before my eyes, so I think "necessary" is a little strong there.

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Re:Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite ... by jack_squat on Saturday May 06, 2023 @12:40PM (#35842986)

FTS is not the same as regex.

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Re:Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite ... by wpietri on Saturday May 06, 2023 @12:54PM (#35843123)

I don't think I said it was. I was addressing the specific use cases mentioned. If there's another use case you think is important in searching command line history, feel free to describe it.

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Re:Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite ... by justinclift on Saturday May 06, 2023 @02:47PM (#35844198)

> feel free to describe it

Didn't they already? eg stemming

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Re:Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite ... by epr on Saturday May 06, 2023 @04:13PM (#35844980)

Most stemming use cases are trivially solved with a regex. That's the point he was making. The difference between a beginner and expert with regexes is quite a lot.

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Re:Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite ... by justinclift on Saturday May 06, 2023 @10:01PM (#35847192)

Ahhh, interesting point.

"We could learn advanced regexes... or we could just use FTS5".

Hard call. :)

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Re:Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite ... by epr on Sunday May 07, 2023 @06:56AM (#35850131)

Well, I suppose what's trivial for me might be advanced for you :)

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Re:Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite ... by justinclift on Sunday May 07, 2023 @09:57AM (#35851567)

For regexes, definitely. ;)

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Re:Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite ... by wpietri on Sunday May 07, 2023 @12:02PM (#35852816)

Maybe! Full-text search is great for text. Command lines have some things in common with text, but they definitely aren't normal text. E.g., punctuation is much more significant. Stemming may not be appropriate. Case matters. Word boundaries are different, and many of the significant lumps aren't really words.

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