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🐠 ZSH port of Fish history search (up arrow)

18 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 0 stories, 18 comments · first 2011-09-24 · latest 2025-03-26

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  1. …thing but older, for those who like older things because they have an air of stability about them: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
    comment by northisup · 2025-03-26 · in Better Shell History Search
  2. How does this differ from https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search ? Except that yours seems to be built-in and zsh-history-substring-search is ~800 lines of zsh
    comment by SushiHippie · 2024-01-12 · in Fly through your shell history
  3. Agreed, but also https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search for me. I can't life without this one anymore
    comment by SushiHippie · 2023-12-28 · in Show HN: TBMK – A Commands Bookmark for Terminal
  4. On a similar note, zsh-history-substring-search has become something I look for everywhere. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
    comment by avindroth · 2021-07-29 · in Command line tools for productive programmers
  5. …as what fish comes with out of the box. [1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions [2] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
    comment by dickeytk · 2019-10-26 · in Fish: A command line shell for the 90s
  6. And history search https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search oh-my-zsh is an unnecessary "config framework" that includes all the things already.
    comment by floatboth · 2017-07-05 · in Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs
  7. Also add https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search to make history search really nice (type normally in shell, then press up arrow, like in fish)
    comment by floatboth · 2017-04-13 · in Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash History
  8. …to get those fish features. tada ! https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
    comment by bigbugbag · 2017-01-15 · in Mastering Bash and Terminal
  9. …it completes to systemctl sys<ctrl+e> and it completes to the full last systemctl command I used https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions…
    comment by bigbugbag · 2016-05-06 · in Count me as a systemd convert
  10. …a look into history-substring-search[1], zsh-autosuggestions[2], zsh-syntax-highlighting[3]. [1]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search [2]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions [3]:…
    comment by bigbugbag · 2016-05-06 · in Count me as a systemd convert
  11. there are several zsh autocomplete type plugins. I like this one https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
    comment by jonotime · 2015-07-13 · in Fish shell 2.2
  12. ^R is probably my second favorite command, I prefer FiSH style (and use https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search with ZSH), but since this isn't on every server I have access, it's a nice trick to remember. My favorite one…
    comment by Spittie · 2014-05-18 · in Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command
  13. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
    comment by vdm · 2014-03-01 · in Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web browser
  14. I'm using https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search It emulates the Fish behavior (which is just awesome). I'm not sure if it requires oh-my-zsh, but I think it doesn't.
    comment by Spittie · 2013-10-28 · in Fish shell 2.1
  15. You should check out https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
    comment by cleverjake · 2013-10-09 · in Adding Vi To Your Zsh
  16. You can also get the same functionality with ZSH using https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
    comment by johtso · 2013-04-17 · in The most useful thing in bash
  17. And if you use ZSH you can go one step further with proper substring search. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
    comment by johtso · 2013-04-17 · in The most useful thing in bash
  18. Have your tried https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search ? Search history using substring of earlier command. Really good.
    comment by crazydiamond · 2011-09-24 · in A zsh Workshop