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Fish Shell has a lot of cool feature but lack of `ctrl-r` functionality is preventing me from using it full time.

brinox 6y ago
You can just type in anything you'd like as when using Ctrl+R and then just press the up arrow key to perform a fuzzy match in your history.
- grimgrin 6y ago
  Does fish have its own inputrc ? I'm sure it uses inputrc or similar, giving you a thing like: $if mode=emacs "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward $endif aka, type "fish" and press up arrow to only go through history that starts with "fish" also, how would you configure fish to use something that doesn't lean on arrows? ^r has its own useful power that can be separate from my use-case of arrows mentioned above, if not just bc you don't have to move off the homerow ;)
  - snazz 6y ago
    You can press ^E to complete the current autocompletion, or keep typing a little more to disambiguate if needed. edit: this originally said ^D, which is EOF, not autocomplete :)
- miguelmota 6y ago
  Is possible to change the keyboard shortcut? Moving fingers from arrow keys and back is definitely slower than hitting ctrl-r
  - thrwyoilarticle 6y ago
    You can use ^p/^n
krisgenre 6y ago
I am using fish along with fzf[1] and it makes `ctrl-r` even better. [1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
- miguelmota 6y ago
  Good idea, will try it.
fimdomeio 6y ago
Can't remember if it's something special I did with my fish config but ctrl+r works for me and is actually better than bash.
nikisweeting 6y ago
The default mode in fish is Ctrl-R mode, the shortcut is redundant.
triceratops 6y ago
It lacks "ctrl+r" because it does history search even better than bash. It shows auto-suggestions based on your history. I find ctrl+r when I'm in bash kind of annoying, and not as good at searching.
- thrwyoilarticle 6y ago
  And bash lets you accidentally screw up the history, because it's editable by default, and just weird ^p/^n behaviour
miguelmota 6y ago
There's a long issue thread on this spanning since 2013: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/602 https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/602 And to clarify, I understand Fish has autocomplete as good or better than bash but not having the keyboard shortcut as ctrl-r is what's making it hard to get accustomed to since I jump around servers where only bash is available and have to use ctrl-r extensively.

You can just type in anything you'd like as when using Ctrl+R and then just press the up arrow key to perform a fuzzy match in your history.

grimgrin 6y ago
Does fish have its own inputrc ? I'm sure it uses inputrc or similar, giving you a thing like: $if mode=emacs "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward $endif aka, type "fish" and press up arrow to only go through history that starts with "fish" also, how would you configure fish to use something that doesn't lean on arrows? ^r has its own useful power that can be separate from my use-case of arrows mentioned above, if not just bc you don't have to move off the homerow ;)
- snazz 6y ago
  You can press ^E to complete the current autocompletion, or keep typing a little more to disambiguate if needed. edit: this originally said ^D, which is EOF, not autocomplete :)
miguelmota 6y ago
Is possible to change the keyboard shortcut? Moving fingers from arrow keys and back is definitely slower than hitting ctrl-r
- thrwyoilarticle 6y ago
  You can use ^p/^n

krisgenre 6y ago

I am using fish along with fzf[1] and it makes `ctrl-r` even better. [1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

miguelmota 6y ago
Good idea, will try it.

fimdomeio 6y ago

Can't remember if it's something special I did with my fish config but ctrl+r works for me and is actually better than bash.

nikisweeting 6y ago

The default mode in fish is Ctrl-R mode, the shortcut is redundant.

triceratops 6y ago

It lacks "ctrl+r" because it does history search even better than bash. It shows auto-suggestions based on your history. I find ctrl+r when I'm in bash kind of annoying, and not as good at searching.

thrwyoilarticle 6y ago
And bash lets you accidentally screw up the history, because it's editable by default, and just weird ^p/^n behaviour

miguelmota 6y ago

There's a long issue thread on this spanning since 2013: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/602 https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/602 And to clarify, I understand Fish has autocomplete as good or better than bash but not having the keyboard shortcut as ctrl-r is what's making it hard to get accustomed to since I jump around servers where only bash is available and have to use ctrl-r extensively.