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drdexebtjltoday at 5:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

I don’t want my prompt to also handle shell history, and especially in such an “opinionated” way.

What happens to my actual shell-provided history?

Does too much for me.

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> Both files follow the XDG base directory spec, so neither lives in the install directory. Removing whetuu with rm -rf ~/.whetuu cannot take your history with it. whetuu paths prints both locations.

Please stop creating directories in my $HOME.


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reddit_clonetoday at 6:44 PM

I do want shell history with folders.

I tried a few (Atuin? McFly?) but the performance wasn't good with my massive zsh history (going back several years).

Zsh+fzf does a buttery smooth job (no folders though, unfortunately). Other tools start to stutter at scale.

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yamafaktorytoday at 5:58 PM

Why not, plenty of tools - atuin included - are doing that.

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