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You might be interested in: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly - fuzzy shell history (feels lighter than atuin to me, in rust) https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec - rerun on file change, knows about .gitignore/.ignore etc (in rust)…

comment by digikata · 2026-04-02 · in Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

…QoL improvement to any shell I use is to improve the history function(Ctlr+R)I personally like https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by coopykins · 2026-03-26 · in Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)

You can try McFly [1] and Television [2]. I still prefer fzf. [1] https://github.com/cantino/mcfly [2] https://github.com/alexpasmantier/television

comment by quinncom · 2026-03-21 · in Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

…- The command's historical exit status. You probably don't want to run old failed commands. [1] https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by AyyEye · 2025-09-23 · in Zoxide: A Better CD Command

How does it compare to mcfly? https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by Fervicus · 2025-06-24 · in Atuin – Magical Shell History

…sync, there are a bunch of other projects doing this (and supporting several shells), eg: - mcfly: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly - resh: https://github.com/curusarn/resh

comment by ellieh · 2025-06-24 · in Atuin – Magical Shell History

…commands. McFly's suggestions are prioritized in real time with a small neural network. [1] https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by devjam · 2025-03-26 · in Better Shell History Search

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin You're welcome.

comment by IshKebab · 2025-02-16 · in Trick to find commands in the terminal quickly

…- enter partial path, press tab) and continue: https://github.com/laktak/extrakto * mcfly history: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly just watch the demo, you'll see * ugrep: grep with a powerful tui: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep - I…

comment by kristopolous · 2025-02-09 · in Some terminal frustrations

It's actually quite neat, doesn't have to do anything with the current AI hype: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly/blob/master/src/network.rs Just a few nodes, hardcoded weights. I wonder how it was trained.

comment by iFreilicht · 2024-01-12 · in Fly through your shell history

It is a custom pretrained NN with very few nodes, the full source code is here: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly/blob/master/src/network.rs

comment by iFreilicht · 2024-01-12 · in Fly through your shell history

Some discussion about cross pollination https://github.com/cantino/mcfly/issues/373

comment by bongobingo1 · 2024-01-12 · in Fly through your shell history

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story by lovestaco · 2024-01-12 · 96 comments

True I use mcfly[1] works pretty smoothly for me [1] https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by lovestaco · 2024-01-12 · in I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

I've had a great time using McFly ( https://github.com/cantino/mcfly ) for going through my command history. It prioritizes showing commands that were previously run in your current directory!

comment by f_kai · 2023-12-07 · in Cdpath: Easily Navigate Directories in the Terminal

I end up installing mcfly ( https://github.com/cantino/mcfly ) in all my shells, and it works great in fish as well.

comment by srjilarious · 2023-08-26 · in Fish – A friendly interactive shell

Does mcfly also have this behavior? https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by jpeeler · 2023-05-12 · in Session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta

I’m trying to compare this to mcfly, which does that, and also uses a sqlite db https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by pmarreck · 2023-05-06 · in Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

How does this compare to McFly? https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by pmarreck · 2023-05-06 · in Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

If you like searching your Bash history with fzf, you're gonna love McFly: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by jordemort · 2023-05-06 · in Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”

There's also McFly which does the same thing. https://github.com/cantino/mcfly I've only used McFly and found it to be pretty great. My only complaint is the default search mode is SQL strings, so you have to use `%` for wildcards. I wish…

comment by IshKebab · 2023-05-06 · in Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

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Mcfly: Fly through your shell history. Great Scott

story by nateb2022 · 2023-04-08 · 0 comments

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

comment by pmarreck · 2023-03-21 · in So you've installed `fzf` – now what?

I'm a fan of McFly https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by pmarreck · 2023-03-21 · in So you've installed `fzf` – now what?

…and changed the way I write code. Have a good clipboard history has really changed my flow. [1]: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly [2]: https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut

comment by FigurativeVoid · 2022-12-20 · in Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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story by ingve · 2022-12-09 · 0 comments

Another similar tool that may be of interest is mcfly https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by uneekname · 2022-11-29 · in Keyboard shortcuts for GNU Readline

…useless to me. I used to use something before, probably McFly, that had way better search results. https://github.com/cantino/mcfly https://github.com/ellie/atuin

comment by yewenjie · 2022-11-02 · in Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable

As far as control-R command history searching, really enjoying McFly https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by pmarreck · 2022-10-28 · in Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things

…<ctrl+r>. It makes suggestions based on your current directory as well as your command history. [0] https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by uneekname · 2022-06-30 · in Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly it uses small neural engine and pretty fast

comment by ghishadow · 2022-05-16 · in RESH: Rich Enhanced Shell History

Alternatives (without judgement): https://github.com/cantino/mcfly https://github.com/jcsalterego/historian https://github.com/larkery/zsh-histdb + https://github.com/m42e/zsh-histdb-fzf https://github.com/ellie/atuin All of these except…

comment by phiresky · 2022-05-16 · in RESH: Rich Enhanced Shell History

Been using something similar, McFly, for a while. It works really well. https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by cmer · 2022-05-16 · in RESH: Rich Enhanced Shell History

This can be made much more powerful by McFly, I recommend: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by PufPufPuf · 2022-04-30 · in Ask HN: Teach me something new

…further in this space (disclaimer, I'm one of the maintainers) [0]: https://datasette.io/ [1]: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly [2]: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide [3]: https://github.com/ellie/atuin

comment by conradludgate · 2022-04-27 · in Atuin for zsh shell history in SQLite

There's also McFly[1] that does interactive history search. [1]: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by carlhjerpe · 2022-04-26 · in Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq

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GitHub – cantino/mcfly: Fly through your shell history. Great Scott

story by oweiler · 2022-04-12 · 0 comments

McFly works on Fish and re-adds your ctrl-R back, except makes it much more powerful: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by pmarreck · 2022-03-20 · in Fish 3.4.0

Not GPT-3, but you may be interested in this: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by Trasmatta · 2022-03-19 · in Fish 3.4.0

You can use McFly instead: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by IshKebab · 2022-03-18 · in Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands

…net or fzf along with sqlite and clever script hooks to do basically everything you may need: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by anotherhue · 2022-03-18 · in Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands

…You can remove entries from your history as well all within the McFly U/I. Game changer. [1] https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by nodesocket · 2022-03-17 · in TUIs

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story by cute_boi · 2022-03-02 · 1 comment

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly Life changer

comment by Mizza · 2021-12-28 · in $!134 can be a nice bash foot shooter if you accidentally mistype the number

Do you know how zsh-histdb compares to similar projects?(quick google…) https://github.com/cantino/mcfly https://github.com/ellie/atuin https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/ https://github.com/AlexanderThaller/hstdb…

comment by da39a3ee · 2021-11-09 · in Jog: Print the last 10 commands you ran in the current directory

I think mcfly's ( https://github.com/cantino/mcfly ) prioritization engine is still the killer feature for my purposes, but the sync server and timing display are both fantastic ideas, and I'd love to see them all together. Mcfly's also…

comment by dmfay · 2021-05-09 · in Show HN: Atuin, improved shell history with multi-machine sync

…lsd, a fast alternative to exa https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd mcfly, reverse-search on steroids https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by oweiler · 2021-04-22 · in A Collection of Modern/Faster/Saner Alternative Unix Commands

mcfly is a nice alternative https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

comment by oweiler · 2021-02-18 · in Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind

If you are disappointed, there's mcfly, which does things with your shell history and ML: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly :-)

comment by _frkl · 2020-10-03 · in Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code

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Mcfly – neural-network powered directory and context-aware shell history search

story by yankcrime · 2020-07-07 · 28 comments