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Searching for Past Commands in Eshell (midwest.social)

submitted 3 days ago by tomenzgg@midwest.social to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

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Dunno if anyone would know but, basically, I want something similar to Ctrl-r, when you're using Bash.

eshell-isearch-backward kind of gets at it but it seems to fail at detecting commands that have definitely been used in the past, randomly (and finds them when invoked a second time…; the other issue is there doesn't seem to be an easy way to reinvoke it. Commands like eshell-isearch-repeat-backward don't seem to work like anticipated).

Figured I'd throw out a line, in case anyone knew.

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[–] nmtake@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How about consult-history? https://github.com/minad/consult?tab=readme-ov-file#histories

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago

Always felt like it was taking up too much of the screen space but I'm using counsel, for opening files, already; maybe it'd be easier to just find something along those lines than directly imitating the bash experience. Thanks for the suggestion!