Hey Oliver - Console PM and author of the above post here. Glad you learned lots - makes writing it worthwhile ;) I didn't mean to imply that command history

Hey Oliver - Console PM and author of the above post here. Glad you learned lots - makes writing it worthwhile ;) I didn't mean to imply that command history is not a productivity enhancement - it absolutely IS! What I was saying was that in the absence of a system/terminal-provided command history mechanism, every shell has to implement its own. Cmd needs it. PowerShell needs it. Bash needs it. Zsh … fish … yaddayaddayadda need command-history. So if every shell (and many apps) need a command history buffer, why not provide command-history as a service from the terminal. There are MANY amazing and valuable things one could do if one could consistently log/store/serialize command-history for later replay, analysis, etc. I agree 1000% that Windows' command history is FAR from good, but I think there are some pretty awesome things we could do to make it so. Bear with us on this ;)